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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.

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.

Rumer Godden
Book, Cat, Writing
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

Rumer Godden
Firsts, Birth, First Time
Rumer Godden (2011). “The Greengage Summer”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

The stitch of a book is its words.

Rumer Godden
Book, Stitches

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.

Rumer Godden
Successful, Should Have, People
Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

cleverness is a disease.

Rumer Godden
Disease, Cleverness
Rumer Godden (1951). “A Breath of Air”

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

Rumer Godden
Love Is, People, Matter
Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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.

Rumer Godden
Thinking, Solitude, Going Away
Rumer Godden (1961). “Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further”

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

Rumer Godden
Beach, Thinking, California

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

Rumer Godden
Children, Different, Wonder
Rumer Godden (1979). “Five For Sorrow, Ten For Joy”

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

Rumer Godden
Simple, Garden, Joy

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