Writer’s Desk: Enjoy It

In 1958, Daphne Du Maurier, author of gothic treats like Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, and the story that inspired Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” wrote an essay about her fame called “.” Du Maurier, born this week in 1930, had advice what to do when you have just done something right:

There come moments in the life of every artist, whether he be a writer, actor, painter, composer, when he stands back, detached, and looks at what he has done … This is the supreme moment. It cannot be repeat...