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
birthday lovely forget-the-past
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
rain bars golden
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 the front parlour
reality ideas flying
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
book writing night
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"
giving joy childhood
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
past law may
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
change stress humor
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
human-nature humans overestimate
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
inspirational motivational happiness
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
repetition stale
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
change positive organization
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
beauty normal labels
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
unhappy affair enjoy
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
views sky earth
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.