“I was always pretending to be someone else… historical characters, all those I invented for myself…I act even to this day…It's the old imagination working, a kind of make believe.”

— Daphne du Maurier

On her childhood (from a 1977 interview as quoted in “The menacing Daphne du Maurier” https://www.independent.ie/life/the-menacing-daphne-du-maurier-36182507.html in Independent.ie (2017 Oct 2)

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British writer 1907–1989

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