Rumer Godden Quotes

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• A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
• When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
• 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…
• Memory is the only friend of grief.
• 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…
• 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…
• The stitch of a book is its words.
• 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…
• There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual .…
• 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…
• I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
• A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
• 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…
• 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…
• The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
• 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…

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