242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

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.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

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.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...

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.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.