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
believe sin cruelty
Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.
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.
hurt prayer believe
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.
believe fighting people
The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.
believe
marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
american-novelist sit trouble women
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
american-novelist difference grave rut
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
american-novelist easier hard life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
cutting men blood
you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.
spring book light
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.
american-novelist hard life
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
born imagine suppose vital vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
advice agree beginning prove taking word
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
affected race
I don't know how race would have affected it,