All autobiography is self-indulgent.
All I can say is that I had a very happy married life and have a delightful family.
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
I believe one can become too introspective writing this type of thing. I intend to look to the future rather than the past.
I have always had West Highland terriers.
We came to the lodge at Four Turnings, as we had been instructed, and opened the creaking iron gates with the bluff and false courage common to the trespasser. The lodge was deserted. No one peered at us from the windows.
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?
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
Second daughter of famed actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and younger sister of Angela du Maurier. Created a Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1969.
Granddaughter of author George L. Du Maurier.
She had two daughters and a son, Christian Frederick 'Kits' Browning (b. 1940).
In her 2005 album, "The Beekeeper", Tori Amos wrote the song "Jamaica Inn" as a tribute to her work as a writer, with quotes from her books "Rebecca" and the eponymous "Jamaica Inn".
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