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
Ellen Glasgow quotes about
romance literature innocence
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
remembrance desire illogical
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
illusion borrowed
Borrowed illusions are better than none ...
theory
Theories have nothing to do with life ...
valleys sanctuary spirituality
Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
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.
imagination novel
For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination ...
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.
thoughtful thinking order
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.
eternity ends
Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.
human-nature humans human-beings
I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.