top of page
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier

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

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

Exlpore more Books quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

Explore more quotes by Daphne du Maurier

Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"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?"
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"All autobiography is self-indulgent."
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."
Quote_1.png
Daphne du Maurier
"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
bottom of page