Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith
Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smithwas an English children's novelist and playwright, known best for the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Other works include I Capture the Castle, and The Starlight Barking. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was adapted into a 1961 Disney animated movie version. Her novel I Capture the Castle was adapted into a 2003 movie version. I Capture the Castle was voted number 82 as "one of the nation's 100 best-loved novels" by the British public as part of...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth3 May 1896
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
The Devil's out of fashion.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Oh, wise young judge.
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.
They call them the haunted shores, these stretches of Devonshire and Cornwall and Ireland which rear up against the westward ocean. Mists gather here, and sea fog, and eerie stories. That's not because there are more ghosts here than in other places, mind you. It's just that people who live hereabouts are strangely aware of them.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.