Virginia Woolf, Becoming a Writer

"Astonishingly gifted from the start, Woolf learned to be attentive to the movements of her own mind. Through self-reflection she found a language for the ebb and flow of thought, fantasy, feeling and memory, for the shifts of light and dark. And in her writing she preserved, recreated and altered the dead, altering in the process her internal relationship with their "invisible presence." "I will go backwards & forwards" she remarked in her diary, a comment on both her imaginative and writerly practice.".