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
gratitude cheer garden
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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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.
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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.
beach thinking california
in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
children different wonder
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
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.