People have been saying the novel is dead for as far back as I can remember. The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and tak…

- Rosamond Lehmann

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

- Rosamond Lehmann

[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

- Rosamond Lehmann

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface…

- Rosamond Lehmann

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

- Rosamond Lehmann

I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, …

- Rosamond Lehmann

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

- Rosamond Lehmann

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

- Rosamond Lehmann

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

- Rosamond Lehmann