Literary Birthday – 3 May – Dodie Smith

Dodie Smith was born on 3 May 1896 and died on 24 November 1990.

Dodie Smith Quotes

1. How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
2. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
3. I only want to write. And there’s no college for that except life.
4. 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.
5. Perhaps if I make myself write, I shall find out what is wrong with me.
6. While I have been writing, I have lived in the past, the light of it has been all around me…
7. I could look at stationers’ shops forever and ever.
8. I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring – I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.
9. I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
10. Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

Dodie Smith was an English novelist and playwright. She was one of the most successful female dramatists of her generation. She wrote Autumn, Crocus, and Dear Octopus, among other plays. Smith is best known for her novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians. It has been adapted by Disney twice, an animated film in 1961 called One Hundred and One Dalmatians and a live-action film in 1996 called 101 Dalmatians. Her other works include I Capture the Castle and The Starlight Barking. She wrote four autobiographies.

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by Amanda Patterson

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