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
People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
Topaz was wonderfully patient - but sometimes I wonder if it is not only patience, but also a faint resemblance to cows.
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious...
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...
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.