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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
Life
End
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
Daphne du Maurier
Writers
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Daphne du Maurier
Love
Men
Women
Want
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Daphne du Maurier
First
Writing
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Daphne du Maurier
Autobiography
Self
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Happiness
Quality
Thought
Mind
Possession
State
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Daphne du Maurier
Books
Name