People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time. Rumer Godden More Quotes by Rumer Godden More Quotes From Rumer Godden 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. Rumer Godden emotionalspiritualpeople When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. Rumer Godden literacyborn-againreading To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls. Rumer Godden storieswayfall Drink very good tea out of a thin Wocester cup of colour between apricot and pink. Rumer Godden apricotscupstea 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. Rumer Godden two-sidesgivingbook I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him. Rumer Godden metsdevilbelieve It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by. Rumer Godden dollsdonesometimes Wanting is the beginning of getting. Rumer Godden desire 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. Rumer Godden thesaurusgoldmemories 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. Rumer Godden solituderunningthinking Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it. Rumer Godden indianfeltdust A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden gratitudegardencheer Memory is the only friend of grief. Rumer Godden griefmemories Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful. Rumer Godden hurtfulthreepeople You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends. Rumer Godden nuisancefriendsfamily 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. Rumer Godden sightmindwriting Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. Rumer Godden turnscoursesage I suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organize and concentrate-or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my 'ten minutes'. I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book alive. Rumer Godden happinesstwobook I loved Mr. Darcy far more than any of my own husbands. Rumer Godden darcymy-ownhusband 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. Rumer Godden differentcuriositythinking
