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
[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 all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share
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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