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.
While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.
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