the wave in the mind
28th May 2017 | for Creatives | language, writing, artist's voice, Ursula K. Le Guin, Virginia Woolf |
"That is something that I learned from Virginia Woolf, who talks about it most wonderfully in a letter to her friend Vita. Style, she says, is rhythm—'the wave in the mind'—the wave, the rhythm, are there before the words, and bring the words to fit it."
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