"Every piece of writing... starts from what I……" — Rumer Godden
"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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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
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As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests…
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Memory is the only friend of grief.
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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries,…
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If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
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The stitch of a book is its words.
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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…
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There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
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It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
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I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn…
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