The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
Ellen GlasgowI would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Ellen Glasgow...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
Ellen Glasgow