Best Diane Setterfield Sayings
- People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. Appalling
- To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they… Anyone
- Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those… Fairy
- Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm… Art
- A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic. Case
- In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid. Cruel
- My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. Cowers
- I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. Everyone
- There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Deftly
- I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. Endings
- Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. Arthur
- There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to… All
- Tragedy alters everything. Alters
- There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read… Abandon
- I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was… Been
- 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 more… All
- The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to… Cry
- Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. Appetite
- But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children. Children
- I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. Beginning
- She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. Book
- I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time when reading was… Adult
- Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? Cast
- I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. Diary
- The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting… Abandoning
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