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Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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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.…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations…
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Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light…
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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Walk some night on a suburban street and pass house after house on both sides of the same street each with the…
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On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were…
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So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the…
— Steven Millhauser
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The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the…
— Diane Setterfield
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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys.…
— Anais Nin
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the…
— W G Sebald
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And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door;…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale in the lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which…
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