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
death enjoy perversity
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
strength lying down-and
I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
spring flower air
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
flower animal sky
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
lonely loneliness world
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
gratitude grateful way
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.
long too-short novel
A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.
dream adventure mind
Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.
attitude honor age
The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.
hurt freedom long
Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.
giving sickness poor
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
men practice religion
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
disappointment knowing littles
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
believe responsibility men
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.