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
writing imagination vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
courage culture youth
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
years differences making-a-difference
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
violence literature crude
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
long influence indirect
... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...
ideas someday modern
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
tired curiosity immature
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.
youth cynicism
Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.
people taught cruelty
Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
eternity ends
Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.
lonely enough used
I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.
dignity anachronism
Dignity is an anachronism.
lasts want suitable
The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
believe sin cruelty
Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.