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 stitches
The stitch of a book is its words.
book two-sides giving
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
book written
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
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.
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.
call happening pass piece quite sentence sight starts
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.
english-novelist grown rather whose
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.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
peace unto
It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.
disease cleverness
cleverness is a disease.
believe devil mets
I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.
desire
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
husband darcy my-own
I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
important littles born
With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.