The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing,… — 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.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can… — 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
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to… — 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
