I fear I shall be a clinger to the outsides of words all my life. Author: Virginia Woolf Copy Quote More from Virginia Woolf “Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mot…” “Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.” “Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and …” “Never would she come first with anyone.”