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 things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

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

We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.