Diane Setterfield quotes

Of course I loved books more than people. (Diane Setterfield)

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Diane Setterfield

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

Diane Setterfield

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

Diane Setterfield

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

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I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy.

Diane Setterfield

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Diane Setterfield

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

Diane Setterfield

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. (Diane Setterfield)

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

Diane Setterfield

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

Diane Setterfield

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

Diane Setterfield

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

Diane Setterfield

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

Diane Setterfield

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Diane Setterfield

For it must be very lonely being dead.

Diane Setterfield

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.

Diane Setterfield

What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? (Diane Setterfield)

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Diane Setterfield

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

Diane Setterfield

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield

Occupation: British Author
Born: August 22, 1964
Quotes count: 47

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