"I'd write a story once in a while, but I wouldn't pester editors with it.
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact.

If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance.

There are some terrible bad men in the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them--though Mrs.Lynde believes we're all bad.

But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us.

Keep on writing, Anne." "No.