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Daphne du Maurier [1907-1989] English
Rank: 106
Novelist, Author


Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, DBE was an English author and playwright.
Although she is classed as a romantic novelist, her stories seldom feature a conventional happy ending, and have been described as ‘moody and resonant’ with overtones of the paranormal.

Happiness, Women



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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Women
101
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Happiness
102
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
103
All autobiography is self-indulgent.
104
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
105
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?
106
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
107

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