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.
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience. - Rumer Godden
Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.
- Rumer Godden
Memory is the only friend of grief. - Rumer Godden
Memory is the only friend of grief.
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… - Rumer Godden
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…
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
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.
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 … - Rumer Godden
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 …
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 bl… - Rumer Godden
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 bl…
Wanting is the beginning of getting. - Rumer Godden
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again. - Rumer Godden
When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it. - Rumer Godden
Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it.
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