Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.
Ellen GlasgowIn her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!
Ellen GlasgowI would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.
Ellen Glasgow