Daphne du Maurier

“Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.”

“All autobiography is self-indulgent.”

“The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me.”

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

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again.”