The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
Ellen GlasgowViolence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen GlasgowIt seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen GlasgowSo long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Ellen Glasgow