Book Quote by Diane Setterfield

“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she…

— Wilkie Collins

“Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.”

— Stephanie Hemphill

“It's all about the writing, and of course, the ghosts.”

— Debi Chestnut

“She imagined people picking up the newspapers she dropped through their doors, reading about a world they never visited. For the first time it…

— Catherine O'Flynn

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“These books...," she begins, and stops. I am frightened for her, for myself decades from now, struggling to retain dignity with two strangers as…

— Deborah Meyler

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Secondhand books are haunted, according to him. Ghosts in the pages.”

— Cath Crowley

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk…

— Christopher Morley

“And when she died, she was lonely, and scared, and she missed her books. And she pretty much just got up and walked back…

— Tim Byrd

“When reading dies, the imagination soon follows.”

— Ronnie Ray Jenkins

“...and in the deep, dreaming hours I am easily moved by the stories of the real men and women who have lived out their…

— Stephen Goodwin