Rumer Godden Quotes
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.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
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 only be done by.
Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
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.
People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.
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 human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
