"The Menace, in movie language, and especially among women, means a heart-throb, a lover, someone with wide shoulders …"

"My novels are what is known as popular and sell very well, but I am not a critic’s favourite, indeed I am generally d…"

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

"There were no dark trees here, no tangled undergrowth, but on either side of the narrow path stood azaleas and rhodod…"

"I write about the black experience, because it's what I know. But I'm always talking about the human condition, what …"

"The seed of the story [Rebecca] lay in du Maurier’s jealousy of Jan Ricardo, the first fiancée of her husba…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say, If ever I live upon dry land, The spot I should hit on wou'd be little Brit…"

"Then a very great war man, call'd Billy the Norman, Cried "D--n it, I never lik'd my land.""

"The Dons came to plunder the island; But, snug in the hive, the Queen was alive, And "buzz" was the word in the island."