Zitate von Dodie Smith

„I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„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, buch I Capture the Castle

„I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„… 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, buch I Capture the Castle

„Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious…“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle

„It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.“

—  Dodie Smith, buch I Capture the Castle