I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held th…

- Ellen Gilchrist

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

- Ellen Gilchrist

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or fat…

- Ellen Gilchrist

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

- Ellen Gilchrist

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you …

- Ellen Gilchrist

We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, ai…

- Ellen Gilchrist

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

- Ellen Gilchrist

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

- Ellen Gilchrist

I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of lif…

- Ellen Gilchrist