Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn was born in Saint Helier in 1864, a British citizen whose career would carry her across the considerable distance between the world she was born into and the professional life she eventually built. That life encompassed several distinct forms of creative work, and she pursued them with a range that set her apart from writers who confined themselves to a single medium.
Glyn worked as a novelist, a writer, a film screenwriter, and a director. Writing in English, she produced fiction that included Two notable works associated with her name: Three Weeks and Beyond the Rocks. Her involvement in film extended beyond the screenplay, as she also worked as an actor and as a director, occupying multiple roles within the industry during her years of active work.
She died in London on 23 September 1943, bringing to a close a career that had moved through fiction and film and had taken her far from the place of her birth.
Quotes by Elinor Glyn
Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm’s length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives.
I don’t know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel.
I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one’s veins, like grandmamma and me.
Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I’m one of the animals in a cage.
It’s that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With ‘IT’ you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. ‘IT’ can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.
Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, – infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured.
To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.
Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!
