No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
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
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
Ellen Glasgow
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow
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