People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“...when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.” — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people. — 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
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.… — 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
