232 Quotes by Dodie Smith

In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry – in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.

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?

The caravans bark but the dogs move on.

My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people – the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in – the me in what is going to happen next.

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing a book as well as reading it – or rather, it is like living it.

I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life.

It’s hopeless to make friends with people who never talk about themselves.

Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with ‘I love you, I love you’ – like father’s page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn’t warrant a waste of good paper.

The Devil’s out of fashion.