Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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

• I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Imagination, Novelists

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

• I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Painful, Ends

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Writing, Let Me

• I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Character, Human Nature

• I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Writing, Self, Independence

• Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Art, Writing, Interesting

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