Quote

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Age: 67 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1942
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Diarist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
Writer
New London
Prince Edward Island
Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald
Good
Stop
Knowing
Point
Inspirational
Writing

More quotes by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Image
Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
It's great to be great, but it's great to be human.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I'd like to add some beauty to life, said Anne dreamily. I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
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 do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I am simply a book drunkard.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
But I'd rather look like you than be pretty, she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I read somewhere once that souls were like flowers,' said Priscilla. 'Then your soul is a golden narcissus,' said Anne, 'and Diana's is like a red, red rose. Jane's is an apple blossom, pink and wholesome and sweet.' 'And our own is a white violet, with purple streaks in its heart,' finished Priscilla.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Image
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea, said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.
Lucy Maud Montgomery