A Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Born Going Incurable Itch Quite Writing

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian - Educator
November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942

Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.

Juvenal

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

Juvenal

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Laetitia Pilkington

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.

Nick Hornby

I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.

Aubrie Sellers

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

Helen Keller

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

C. S. Lewis

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

C. S. Lewis

I am a competitor and always have that itch until the day I die, but I won't let the itch supersede being a businessman.