242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

After all, you can’t expect men not to judge by appearances.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one’s work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Surely the novel should be a form of art – but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

Tilling the fertile soil of man’s vanity.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring...

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world...

For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination...

To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.