Ellen Gilchrist

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their…

— 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…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“By the time the class ended I was back into an optimistic mood about their work. They were learning, they were working,…

— 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…

— 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

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured…

— Ellen Gilchrist

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

— Ellen Gilchrist

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

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

— Ellen Gilchrist

Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight…

— Ellen Gilchrist

“That's great," Katie said. "Actually, it's revolutionary. If you can work and be in love at the same time, you're the first…

— Ellen Gilchrist

I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.

— Ellen Gilchrist

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

— Ellen Gilchrist