“All the grief I had kept at bay for years by means of books and bookcases approached me now.” — 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
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
“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
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 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 reached for the prescription. In a vigorous scrawl, he inked: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take… — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
