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
beach thinking california
in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
thinking solitude going-away
The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
thinking curiosity answers
if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope.
running thinking solitude
In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.
call happening pass piece quite sentence sight starts
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.
peace unto
It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.
english-novelist grown rather whose
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.
disease cleverness
cleverness is a disease.
desire
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
husband darcy my-own
I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands.
memories grief
Memory is the only friend of grief.
being-sad age pieces
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
simple garden joy
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
family friends nuisance
You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.