All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Daphne du Maurier

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Daphne du Maurier

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier

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

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Daphne du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier