It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
("I Capture the Castle")
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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.Dodie Smith
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.
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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
Dodie Smith
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
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