... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter. — 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
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy. — 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
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero;… — 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
Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the… — 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
