Quote

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

Ellen Glasgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Please
Books
Write
Book
Writing

More quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Image
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
... to be literary appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Ellen Glasgow