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Writing Quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
- Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say…
- When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do…
- I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
- Nobody with any real sense of humor *can* write a love story. . . . Shakespeare is the exception that proves the rule. (90-91)
- You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
- I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set…
- Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth
- never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
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