Ellen Glasgow - Years Quotes

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She had worked so hard for so many years that the habit had degenerated into a disease, and thrift had become a tyrant instead of a slave in her life.

Ellen Glasgow

In her sensible way she was really attached to him, as one becomes attached to a bed, however uncomfortable, in which one has slept, or tried vainly to sleep, for more than fifty years.

Ellen Glasgow

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Ellen Glasgow

I shouldn't mind it if I saw the admirable sweep on to success, or immortality, but always it seems to be the ordinary, the vulgar, and the average, or the lower average, that triumphs. Nothing would astonish me, after all these years, except to be understood.

Ellen Glasgow

The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Ellen Glasgow

Did you ever stop to think that a writer will spend three years, or many more, on a book that the average reader will skim through in a few hours?

Ellen Glasgow