Books Quote by Daphne du Maurier Download Open image “When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.” — Daphne du Maurier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books First person Firsts Novel Persons Scary Writing
Writing in the first person, you immediately open yourself up to the idea that there's a connection between you and the narrator. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
When you're writing in first person you have to be honest about how people think. — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“You understand now... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I could fight with the living but I could not fight the dead. If there was some woman in London that Maxim loved, someone… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.” — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“There have been men in arid deserts where the sun has so disfigured them that they have become things of horror – parched and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. When shutting drawers and flinging wide an hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
