“Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.” — 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 have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she… — 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
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory… — 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
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I… — 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
“My father never put a book into my hands and never forbade a book. Instead, he let me roam and graze, making… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a… — 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
“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — 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
“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
