Diane Setterfield quotes

Of course I loved books more than people. (Diane Setterfield)
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. View quote
Diane Setterfield
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. View quote
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Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. View quote
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me to see is to read. It has always been that way. View quote
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What better place to kill time than a library? View quote
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There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. View quote
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For it must be very lonely being dead. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tragedy alters everything. View quote
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In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. View quote
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I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. View quote
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