I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Ellen GlasgowIt is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen GlasgowI haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen GlasgowI have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.
Ellen Glasgow