Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden
Margaret Rumer Godden OBEwas an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written with her older sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 December 1907
being-sad age pieces
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
simple garden joy
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
family friends nuisance
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.
liars garden house
You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.
book written
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
age turns ifs
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
writing sight mind
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
dust indian felt
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
happiness book two
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive.
successful should-have people
People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
done stubbornness obstinate
It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.
firsts birth first-time
To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.
thinking solitude going-away
The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
people hurtful three
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ...