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Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? — 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
I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
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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… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Rebuilt in Victorian times, it retained the modesty of its medieval origins. Small and neat, its spire indicated the direction of heaven… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Thinking about it now, I realize that the mark had more or less the form of a Q, but at the time,… — 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
“Time was of the essence. For at eight o'clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Why do they spend their time with cows when they are surely the more natural companions to unicorns, griffins and dragons? The… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“remember pondering for a long time over a dish of scrambled egg. What did it mean? It could mean anything. I ate… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the evening and… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I pushed my pile of papers to one side, stroked Shadow and stared into the fire, longing for the comfort of a… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in the first weeks. She was like an amputee… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“However, in ordinary life, one cannot live by such principles. Imagine the time it would take if every aspect of experience had… — 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 is it that allows human beings to see through each other's pretendings? For I understood quite clearly in that moment that… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not… — 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
“She had not had the relief of amnesia. She had suffered longer, and she had suffered more. Each second was agony in… — 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
“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
