Daphne du Maurier Quotes
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, was an English author and playwright.
(1907 - 1989)
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
[Happiness]
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She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.
[Peace Of Mind]
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We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.
[The Past]
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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