The lit­er­ary voice of Vir­ginia Woolf comes to us from a life lived ful­ly in the ser­vice of lit­er­a­ture, a life devot­ed, we might say, to the “craft of writ­ing.” That earnest expres­sion gets tossed around inno­cent­ly enough in var­i­ous gram­mat­i­cal forms. Writ­ers craft sen­tences and para­graphs and set about craft­ing worlds for char­ac­ters to inhab­it. … Con­tin­ue read­ing In the Only Sur­viv­ing Record­ing of Her Voice, Vir­ginia Woolf Explains Why Writ­ing Isn’t a “Craft” (1937)