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
self teach
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
stupidity selfishness stronger
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
writing self independence
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
self personality horizon
The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent....
sacrifice self poor
a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
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,