My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town…

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

Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

— Ellen Gilchrist

“Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape”

— Ellen Gilchrist

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

— Ellen Gilchrist

I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.

— Ellen Gilchrist

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

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

— Ellen Gilchrist

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

“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

Dance in the fullness of time.

— Ellen Gilchrist

“She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.”

— Ellen Gilchrist

“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

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

— Ellen Gilchrist

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

— Ellen Gilchrist