Quotes from Daphne du Maurier

People who travel are always fugitives.

I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth.

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

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

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

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

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.

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