[Vwoolf] Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf--from GK

Mary Ellen Foley mefoleyuk at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 07:35:38 EST 2017


This rather useful site has information on the quotation, and on how it
might have come to be attributed to Woolf:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/17/for-pleasure-for-money/#more-1850

mef

On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:05 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

> So this is what they mean about the post-truth era:
>
> She [VW] said: “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do
> it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
>
> Stuart
>
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