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
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A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
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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.
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Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
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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.