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I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
— Diane Setterfield
But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.
— Diane Setterfield
I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
— 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
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
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
— Diane Setterfield
Writing is more about discovery than invention.
— Diane Setterfield
Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
— Diane Setterfield
What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
— Diane Setterfield
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[They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.
— Diane Setterfield
On those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.
— Diane Setterfield
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
— Diane Setterfield
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
— 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
If you dazzle a man with green eyes, he'll be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is something inside the eyes spying on him.
— Diane Setterfield
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
— Diane Setterfield
Of course I loved books more than people.
— Diane Setterfield
Since we are on the topic of ravens, a collective noun for ravens is an unkindness. This is somewhat puzzling to Thought and Memory.
— Diane Setterfield
Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.
— Diane Setterfield
No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.
— Diane Setterfield
Opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
— Diane Setterfield
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
— Diane Setterfield
Tragedy alters everything.
— Diane Setterfield
In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.
— Diane Setterfield
For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.
— Diane Setterfield
And is it better to know?" he asked me."I can't tell you. But once you know, it's impossible to go back. — Diane Setterfield
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
— Diane Setterfield
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
— Diane Setterfield
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
— Diane Setterfield
Seventeen years being neither a very short nor a very long time, Phillip was remembered and misremembered in equal measure.
— Diane Setterfield
I'd expected that I would expand to fit the experience automatically, that I would get my first glimpse of the person I was destined to be.
— Diane Setterfield
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
— Diane Setterfield
Life is compost.
— Diane Setterfield
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
— Diane Setterfield
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
— 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
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
— Diane Setterfield
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.
— Diane Setterfield
Ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.
— Diane Setterfield
In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.
— Diane Setterfield
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
— Diane Setterfield
He has explained why it is that ambiguity touches his heart more nearly than the death and marriage style of finish that i prefer.
— Diane Setterfield
Her eyes were too full of beauty to leave room for anything so mundane as intelligence.
— Diane Setterfield
Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.
— Diane Setterfield
For it must be very lonely being dead.
— Diane Setterfield
Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.
— Diane Setterfield
Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.
— Diane Setterfield
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.
— Diane Setterfield
Someone had told him once that the desire to do something well is a good indicator of talent.
— Diane Setterfield
The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.
— Diane Setterfield
We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.
— 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
Perhaps it didn't matter, I told myself. Who was there to miss me? No one would suffer from my going. That was a blessing.
— Diane Setterfield
What better place to kill time than a library?
— Diane Setterfield
They were like amputees, only it was not a limb they were missing, but their very souls.
— Diane Setterfield
The line between life and death is narrow and dark, and a bereaved twin lives closer to it than most.
— Diane Setterfield
We live like latecomers to the theater; we must catch up as best we can, divining the begging from the shape of later events.
— Diane Setterfield
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
— 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
Reading can be dangerous.
— Diane Setterfield
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
— Diane Setterfield
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
— 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
But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
— Diane Setterfield
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
— Diane Setterfield
I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child.
— Diane Setterfield
An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues; it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot cure.
— Diane Setterfield
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
— Diane Setterfield
L'appetit vient en mangeant. Appetite comes by eating. Your appetite will come back, but it must be met halfway. You must want it to come.
— Diane Setterfield
Ordinary people, untwins, seek their soulmate, take lovers, marry. Tormented by their incompleteness they strive to be part of a pair.
— Diane Setterfield
Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.
— Diane Setterfield
It was not the sun, but the moonlight that shimmered in the garden, edging the leaves with silver and touching the outlines of the statuary figures.
— Diane Setterfield
She was a do-gooder,
— Diane Setterfield
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
— Diane Setterfield
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
— Diane Setterfield
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.
— Diane Setterfield
It doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they go, they're gone for good.
— Diane Setterfield
Endings that are muted, but which echo longer in the memory than louder, more explosive denouements.
— Diane Setterfield
