Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smithwas an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth3 May 1896
I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
Oh, comfortable cocoa!
How can a young man like to wear a beard?
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
The Devil's out of fashion.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Oh, wise young judge.
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?