"And I don't like books which are full…" — Daphne Du Maurier
"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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89 Quotes by Daphne Du Maurier
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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves,…
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my…
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at…
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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Life and death do not wait for legal action.
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Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to…
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
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