"The stitch of a book is its words." — Rumer Godden

"The stitch of a book is its words."

— Rumer Godden

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16 Quotes by Rumer Godden

Rumer Godden has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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,…
If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is the stitch that…
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like…
There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an…
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen;…
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…
I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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