Daphne du Maurier

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better man or woman.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley; again

People who travel are always fugitives.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleepers brain and he is with them and part of them.

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

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

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

There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.

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

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

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?

I am glad it cannot happen twice the fever of first love. For it is a fever and a burden too whatever the poets may say.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear.