Ethel Wilson Quotes & Sayings

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people. — Ethel Wilson

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. — Ethel Wilson

Your power comes from the songs. — Ethel Wilson

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world. — Ethel Wilson

What a land. What power these rivers were already yielding, far beyond her sight. Even a map of this country
lines arranged in an arbitrary way on a long rectangular piece of paper
stirs the imagination beyond imagination, she thought, looking at the map, as other lines differently arranged in relation to each other have not the power to stir. Each name on the map says We reached this point, by broken trail and mountains and water; and when we reached it, thus and thus we named it. — Ethel Wilson

Dullness is a misdemeanour. — Ethel Wilson

A first meeting. A meeting in the desert, a meeting at sea, meeting in the city, meeting at night, meeting at a grave, meeting in the sunshine beside the forest, beside water. Human beings meet, yet the meetings are not the same. Meeting partakes in its very essence not only of the persons but of the place of meeting. And that essence of place remains, and colours, faintly, the association, perhaps forever.
Ethel Wilson, Swamp Angel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990 (page 95). — Ethel Wilson