Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden
Margaret Rumer Godden OBEwas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth10 December 1907
memories gold thesaurus
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.
tea apricots cups
Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink....
fall way stories
To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.
reading literacy born-again
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
spiritual house four
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.
children different wonder
Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.
book stitches
The stitch of a book is its words.
book two-sides giving
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.
important littles born
With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.
The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.
believe devil mets
I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.