“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“...on those days when he could not spend half an hour in the company of a good book, he felt deprived.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“What makes it noteworthy is that a striking coincidence has made it a cleverer trick than they could have known. For the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here and there,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“Yesterday or the day before, while I had been going about my business, quietly and in private, some unknown person—some stranger—had gone to the… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence, this very… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
“He felt something move in his chest, as though an organ had been removed and something unfamiliar left in its place. A sentiment he… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share
