Rumer Godden

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

“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 interes...”

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

“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.”

“The stitch of a book is its words.”

“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.”