Clare Naylor

“As Somerset Maugham famously said, “It’s a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
― Clare Naylor, The First Assistant: A Continuing Tale from Behind the Hollywood Curtain

“Although she’d kept wildcats since she was in her twenties, she’d never removed one from his native environment before. All her cats had been found looking dejected in zoos or in circuses on the outskirts of industrial French towns. When she heard any story of ill treatment or brutality or cramped, dirty cages, she would jump in her car, get out her map, and race to the scene. Once there she would offer the zookeepers or circus owners so much money for the animal that they couldn’t refuse her. And if that failed, she was, quite simply, Mirabelle Moncur—the very sight of her, even in civilian clothes of jeans and a half-unbuttoned man’s shirt, would often be all that was needed to persuade them to unlock the poor animal’s cage and help her put the creature in the back of”
― Clare Naylor, The Goddess Rules