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

Quote by Daphne Du Maurier

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All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when...

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when...

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

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

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

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...

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none...

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

Some of the characters in the story had a fortune in fantasy lives.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest...

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of...