242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Theories have nothing to do with life ...

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being ...

I don't know how race would have affected it,

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

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

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.