People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes. Storytelling, which is the basis of the novel,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them. — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Yes, we are sure of it. These walls enclose a world. Here is continuity spinning a web from room to room, from year to… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Advice to Young Journal Keepers. Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Looking back into childhood is like looking into a semi-transparent globe within which people and places lie embedded. A shake - and they stir,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“Still, now and then they seemed to be holding behind them the surprising, the magic vistas of childhood - the sudden snow at night,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame? — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
“I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour,… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
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