Virginia Woolf - When talking about books is not so pleasant

‘ “Vronsky,” said Mrs Ramsay; “Oh, ANNA KARENINA,” but that did not take them very far; books were not in their line. No, Charles Tansley would put them both right in a second about books, but it was all so mixed up with, Am I saying the right thing? Am I making a good impression? That, after all, one knew more about him than about Tolstoi, whereas what Paul said was about the thing, simply, not himself, nothing else.’

To the Lighthouse – Virginina Woolf.