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 interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her – and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

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 interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her – and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

– Rumer Godden –

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