Quote

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Dodie Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
Sitting
Inspiration
Found
Place
Never
Deviation
Sat
Inspiring

More quotes by Dodie Smith

Image
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Dodie Smith
Image
If you love people, you take them on trust.
Dodie Smith
Image
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
Dodie Smith
Image
He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
Dodie Smith
Image
We were restless for ages...After a while I heard an owl hooting and calmed myself by thinking of it flying over the dark fields – and then I remembered it would be pouncing on mice. I love owls, but I wish God had made them vegetarian.
Dodie Smith
Image
Death is too much to ask of the living.
Dodie Smith
Image
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
Dodie Smith
Image
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
Dodie Smith
Image
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
Dodie Smith
Image
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
Dodie Smith
Image
Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.
Dodie Smith
Image
Oh, comfortable cocoa!
Dodie Smith
Image
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
Dodie Smith
Image
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Dodie Smith
Image
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
Dodie Smith
Image
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
Dodie Smith
Image
It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.
Dodie Smith
Image
I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
Dodie Smith
Image
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
Dodie Smith
Image
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Dodie Smith