Daphne du Maurier Quotes

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: Happiness, Quality, Thought, Mind, Possession, State)

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: Autobiography, Self)

"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: First, Writing)

"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: Love, Men, Women, Want)

"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: Writers)

"What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?"
- Daphne du Maurier
(Related: Life, End)