Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Literature, Violence, Crude

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

• Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Weather, Rely Upon, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Literature, Honest, Being Honest

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

• I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Fashion, Thinking, Thoughtful

• ... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Romance, Literature, Innocence

• The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Writing, Civilization

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