Books Quotes by Diane Setterfield

Of course I loved books more than people.

— Diane Setterfield

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

— Diane Setterfield

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

“It was like living entirely inside a book.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.”

— Diane Setterfield

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

— Diane Setterfield

“Remember, this person burns books. Does he really deserve to live?”

— Diane Setterfield

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

— Diane Setterfield

“Miss Winter restored to me the virginal qualities of the novice reader, and then with her stories she ravished me.”

— Diane Setterfield

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…

— Diane Setterfield

“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through…

— Diane Setterfield

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time…

— 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

Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.

— Diane Setterfield

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

— Diane Setterfield

“In the background is the hiss of the gas heater; we hear the sound without hearing it for, side by side, together…

— Diane Setterfield

“Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time…

— Diane Setterfield

“I reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take…

— Diane Setterfield

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is…

— Diane Setterfield

“He has described in precise, measured words the beautiful desolation he feels at the close of novels where the message is that…

— Diane Setterfield

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

“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane…

— Diane Setterfield

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when…

— Diane Setterfield

The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the…

— Diane Setterfield

“As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them…

— Diane Setterfield

“They are more real than the books on the shelves, books that are sketched with the barest hint of a line here…

— Diane Setterfield

And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any…

— Diane Setterfield

“I read old novels. The reason is simple: I prefer proper endings. Marriages and deaths, noble sacrifices and miraculous restorations, tragic separations…

— Diane Setterfield

“But perhaps the answer is to stop writing altogether, for when I do write, even now as I write this very sentence,…

— Diane Setterfield

“All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know…

— Diane Setterfield

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time…

— Diane Setterfield

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure…

— Diane Setterfield

“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making…

— Diane Setterfield

“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory…

— Diane Setterfield

“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams,…

— Diane Setterfield

“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye…

— Diane Setterfield

“My job is not to sell the books - my father does that - but to look after them. Every so often…

— Diane Setterfield

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time…

— Diane Setterfield

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

— Diane Setterfield

“What are your favorite books? What do you dream about? Whom do you love?”

— Diane Setterfield