Quote by Diane Setterfield Download Open image ““Margaret Lea.” “The biographer.”” — Diane Setterfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly sequence that… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“MARGARET Do I seem composed, sufficiently placid and unmotherly? ALIZON Altogether, except that your earring Trembles a little. MARGARET It's always our touches of… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid… — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
[Margaret Thatcher] is a woman who, when she wrote her entry for "Who's Who," didn't include her mother. Now whether that was corrected in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side, and thus… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political… — Susan Cheever 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
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 Image