A review by libraryassistant_4th
A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf

4.0

This was, for me, so fascinating, awe-inspiring and, yes, terrifying in places. There is laid out the very workings of inspiration, process, discipline, distraction, introspection, invention, and fear in how a creative mind functions. This both in spite of, and sometimes colored by, the mental illness. I know not how to take the sense of recognition felt so often along the way, even while awed by the quick vigor and lyric feel to what she terms a 'slapdash' capturing, 'which sometimes hits the bullseye.'
There is, too, the bigger picture of life between the wars and finally, both subtle and harrowing, the effect of World War II on daily life. In its stoic bewilderment, this was one of the more moving descriptions of that time and place I've encountered.