L.M. Montgomery Quotes

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

Tell me this-if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life-if you knew you'd never have a line published-would you still go on writing-would you?'
'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write-I can't help it at times-I've just got to.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth

It was not, of course, a proper thing to do. But then I have never pretended, nor will ever pretend, that Emily was a proper child. Books are not written about proper children. They would be so dull nobody would read them.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

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 so she kills them off to get rid of them.

Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won't pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.

Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Don't be ridiculous, please.'
The most insulting words in the world!

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?

Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Gilbert, I'm afraid I'm scandalously in love with you.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.