Anne shirley Quote by Anonymous

Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Each girl has to read her story out loud then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have…

— L.M. Montgomery

“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.”

— Kathryn McMaster

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“there wasn't a stove and we put cans of beans in hot water in the sink to heat them up and we read the…

— Charles Bukowski

“town and get some food to take with them to the house.  She knew that the house was new, so she wouldn't have to…

— Bridgit Holliday

“...Jane remained in her chair thinking about justice, about how the dead never benefited from it. For them it always comes too late.”

— Tess Gerritsen

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women…

— Barbara Pym

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

“She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She…

— H.G. Wells