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Having your work honored nationally is a great morale booster.

~Ellen Gilchrist

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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.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Admit After Ashamed Becoming Did Doctor Know Life Love Makes Me Medical My Life Waste I Love

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I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Been Before Even Never Pretending School Since Started Thought Unusual Write Writing

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I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Babies Care Child Children Conceive Dressing Interrupted Know Nursing Single-Minded Stand Story Taking Too Whether Writers Writing

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Ever since I was a child, I've kept boxes and drawers and pages of things that I liked. I suppose that it constitutes a journal of sorts, but it's not in a ledger or a notebook.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Boxes Child Ever Journal Kept Liked Notebook Pages Since Sort Suppose Things

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In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Athletic Beauty Intelligence Midwestern Only Prowess Schools Small Towns

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I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Everyone Habit Knowing Life Lived Most My Life Small Small Towns Talking Towns

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My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Alabama Ancestors Arkansas Both Father Home Like Much North Northwest Places Same

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I love New York, but I wish they wouldn't put clothes on their dogs.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Clothes Dogs Love New New York Put Wish York I Love I Wish

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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.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Arkansas College Friends Highest Hill Home Live Main Mountains Quiet Surrounded Town

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: February 20th, 1935

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