The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that,… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
I haven't written poetry in a long time but I read it and I miss it. It is so hard to write.… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“The way you start writing is by writing. Over and over again I have proven this to myself but I always forget… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape” — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
“By the time the class ended I was back into an optimistic mood about their work. They were learning, they were working, it takes… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.” — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
“Young women are closer to the time when they were manipulative and childish and they don't let their babies manipulate them as much as… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share
