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Rumer Godden Biography

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden. Nine of her works have been made into films, most notably Black Narcissus in 1947.

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When you learn to read you will be born again. . . and you will never be quite so alone again.

Alone, Born, Born Again, Literacy, Quite, Reading

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.

Mind, Pass, Quite, Sentence, Sight, Writing

The stitch of a book is its words.

Book, Stitch, Stitches, Words

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.

Love, Love Is, Matter, People, Wrong

Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.

Dust, Felt, Free, Indian

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.

Gold, Like, Memories, Mined, Poems, Thesaurus

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.

Exhilarated, Running, Solitude, Talk, Thinking

Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink.

Apricots, Cups, Pink, Tea, Thin, Wocester

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

Fall, Kind, Life, Stories, Way

I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.

Believe, Devil, Know, Mets

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Ellyn, Found, Garden, Joy, Simple, Useful

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

Beginning, Desire, Wanting

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

Family, Friends, Nuisance

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.

Age, Being Sad, Busier, Miserable, Pieces, Sad

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

Done, Obstinate, Stubbornness

cleverness is a disease.

Cleverness, Disease

You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.

Big, Garden, House, Liars

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Cheer, Garden, Gratitude, Joy, Useful

Memory is the only friend of grief.

Friend, Grief, Memories, Memory

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. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her, and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

Book, Cat, Grown, Kittens, Writing

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