One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.

Virginia Woolf
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel...
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel...
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel...
One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel...
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When I was younger, I thought that I would be a painter. I loved painting, drawing, and playing with colors. What I didn't realize was that the process of painting is very time consuming. It takes months to create an artwork.

And, while you are creating it, you are only vaguely aware of what you are doing. When it's finished, you can look at it for days or weeks or even months before it finally reveals itself to you. It's like waking up one morning and finding yourself in a new body, looking at yourself in a new perspective.

Source: The Letters Of Virginia Woolf: Volume Six, 19361941

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