One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. — 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
My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Emmeline didn’t call me anything. She didn’t need to, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.” — 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
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then… — 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
