Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Book, Writing, Night

• 1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Book, Light

• O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Writing, Let Me

• 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

  Book, School, Dust

  1941 In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

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