Quotes by Rosamunde Pilcher

About Rosamunde Pilcher:

Rosamunde Pilcher is a British writer of several short-stories and 28 romance novels and mainstream women's fiction from 1949 to 2000, when she retired from writing. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Her son is the writer Robin Pilcher.
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What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

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Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It...

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The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

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It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever

Rosamunde Pilcher

Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good marriage, it changes, it evolves, but it does on g...

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For he was drinking too much. Not uncontrollably nor offensively, but still he seldom seemed to have a glass out of his hand.

Rosamunde Pilcher

He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.

Rosamunde Pilcher

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

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She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view tha...

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There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

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They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.

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Author Bio

  • NameRosamunde Pilcher
  • DescriptionBritish novelist
  • AliasesJane Fraser; Rosamunde Scott; Rosamunde Scott Pilcher
  • BornSeptember 22, 1924
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Romantic Novelists' Association Awards