The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
Ellen GlasgowNo matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen GlasgowKnowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
Ellen Glasgow