You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
Interpretation
Writing is an innate desire that cannot be ignored. It's essential to act on this passion.
In this quote, Lucy Maud Montgomery highlights the idea that the urge to write is a deep-seated and unshakeable part of one's identity. It suggests that those who feel compelled to write must embrace this calling and choose to express their creativity, as it is a fundamental aspect of who they are.
In practice
In a writing workshop, one could use this quote to inspire attendees to write authentically.
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion.
Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings scads of trouble and typhoid and twins!" (Anne to Gilbert)
Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.
Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.
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