"When one is writing a novel in the……" — Daphne du Maurier
"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
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89 Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier has 89 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
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More First Person Quotes
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years…
— Karen Armstrong
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making…
— Scott Adams
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear…
— Ambrose Bierce
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If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd…
— Ben Affleck
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I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
— Tom Bodett
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I am not the first person to give birth naturally. Billions of other women have come before me and have…
— Gisele Bundchen
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Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It…
— Meg Cabot
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Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to…
— Edith Schaeffer
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time.
— Swami Satchidananda
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to…
— Unknown Author
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