Daphne du Maurier Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Simple, Luxury

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Self, Autobiography

  Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”

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

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Names, Name Dropping

• 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

  Book, Hero, Mean

• Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Beach, Book, Writing

  1956 In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.

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