Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

Work is the thing that stays. Work is the thing that sees us through.

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by friends.

Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

Dance in the fullness of time.

I love 'E.R.' and I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes me know I did not waste my life after all by not becoming a medical doctor.

We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico

Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. -The Brown Cape

We live at the level of our language.

She was always saying things like that but I let her be my best friend anyway.