“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
“...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
We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. — 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
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
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — 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
“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 Image
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? — 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 when reading… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“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 Image
