Birth Quote by Rumer Godden

“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve…

— Rumer Godden

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

— Rumer Godden

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

— Rumer Godden

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

— Rumer Godden

“Towards four o'clock the dew fell, and she smelled a gust of sweetness from the roses and a paleness showed in the sky to…

— Rumer Godden

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

— Rumer Godden

“My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial…

— Rumer Godden

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

— Rumer Godden

“Every piece of writing... starts from what I call a grit... a sight or sound, a sentence or a happening that does not pass…

— Rumer Godden

If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that makes a carpet wear,…

— Rumer Godden

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of…

— Rumer Godden

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never…

— Rumer Godden