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
book cat writing
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her, and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.
gratitude cheer garden
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
love-is people matter
If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love ...
dolls done sometimes
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by.
thinking curiosity answers
if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
running thinking solitude
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
memories gold thesaurus
A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.
tea apricots cups
Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink....
fall way stories
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
reading literacy born-again
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
spiritual house four
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.