Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
– Ellen Glasgow
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
– Ellen Glasgow
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
– Ellen Glasgow
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
– Ellen Glasgow
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
– Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
– Ellen Glasgow
No 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 Glasgow
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
– Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
– Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
– Ellen Glasgow
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
– Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
– Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
– Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
– Ellen Glasgow
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
– Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
– Ellen Glasgow