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Rumer Godden Quotes

For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written Picture Quote #1

It’s only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done Picture Quote #1

I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks Picture Quote #1

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Of course one never knows in draft if it’s going to turn out, even with my age and experience Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth Picture Quote #1

Wanting is the beginning of getting Picture Quote #1

Cleverness is a disease Picture Quote #1

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The stitch of a book is its words Picture Quote #1

Memory is the only friend of grief Picture Quote #1

A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy Picture Quote #1

If you love the wrong people it’s still love, isn’t it, no matter what kind of love Picture Quote #1

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn’t be a nuisance to your friends Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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People don’t know the consolations of being unsuccessful... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time Picture Quote #1

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result Picture Quote #1

With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born Picture Quote #1

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 find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it Picture Quote #1

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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 such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days Picture Quote #1

When you learn to read you will be born again... and you will never be quite so alone again Picture Quote #1

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For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written (Rumer Godden Quotes) It’s only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done (Rumer Godden Quotes) I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks. (Rumer Godden Quotes) There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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. (Rumer Godden Quotes) Of course one never knows in draft if it’s going to turn out, even with my age and experience (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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 (Rumer Godden Quotes) A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna (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 (Rumer Godden Quotes) To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth (Rumer Godden Quotes) Wanting is the beginning of getting (Rumer Godden Quotes) Cleverness is a disease (Rumer Godden Quotes) The stitch of a book is its words (Rumer Godden Quotes) Memory is the only friend of grief (Rumer Godden Quotes) A garden isn’t meant to be useful. It’s for joy (Rumer Godden Quotes) If you love the wrong people it’s still love, isn’t it, no matter what kind of love (Rumer Godden Quotes) You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn’t be a nuisance to your friends (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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 (Rumer Godden Quotes) People don’t know the consolations of being unsuccessful... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time (Rumer Godden Quotes) In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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 (Rumer Godden Quotes) Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result (Rumer Godden Quotes) With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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 find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it (Rumer Godden Quotes) 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 such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days (Rumer Godden Quotes) When you learn to read you will be born again... and you will never be quite so alone again (Rumer Godden Quotes)