Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowwas an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1873
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
land truth-is drivers
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
nature land contentment
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
weather rely-upon literature
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
art perfection enough
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
years novel great-novels
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
men politics saws
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em ...
eye comfort chance
Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.
bears levels politics
I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.
opportunity way principles
convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
tests should apprehension
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
philosophy mind monsters
There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
too-much principles littles
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
reality age youth
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
thinking men persuasion
it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...