Daphne du Maurier Quotes & Sayings

“Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.”

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”

“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”

“When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.”

“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”

“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?”

“And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.”