to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
