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
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
Death is too much to ask of the living.
Though he had very little Latin beyond "Cave canem," he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty leather binding).
What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?
Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.