I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

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

She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.

What is it really like to be engaged?" asked Anne curiously. "Well, that all depends on who you're engaged to," answered Diana, with that maddening air of superior wisdom always assumed by those who are engaged over those who are not.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.