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Ethel Wilson

  • The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

  • I am sure that the business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

    • Ethel Wilson,
    • in Mary McAlpine, The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson ()
  • Dullness is a misdemeanor.

    • Ethel Wilson,
    • in David Stouck, ed., Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, and Letters ()

Ethel Wilson, Canadian writer

(1888 - 1980)

Full name: Ethel Davis Bryant Wilson.