Quotes by Rumer Godden

About Rumer Godden:

Margaret Rumer Godden was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. A few of her works were co-written with her older sister, novelist Jon Godden, including Two Under the Indian Sun, a memoir of the Goddens' childhood in a region of India now part of Bangladesh.
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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.

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I know now it is children who accept life; grown people cover it up and pretend it is different with drinks.

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Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. "I like to be friendly she said." "But they are not your friends," said Nabir. "You don't know them." "Respect first," Nabir would have said if he could have explained, "friendship after...

Rumer Godden

I wish I knew when I was going to die,' ninety-six-year-old Dame Frances Anne often said, 'I wish I knew.' 'Why, Dame?' 'Then I should know what to read next.

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 meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to height...

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The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

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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 a cat whose kittens have grown up.

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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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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRumer Godden
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • BornDecember 10, 1907
  • DiedNovember 8, 1998
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Zilveren Griffel