Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“The afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream… — 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
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too… — 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
I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel… — 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 Image
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 Image
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
