"Do they sense it, these dead writers, when……" — Diane Setterfield
"Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so."
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Diane Setterfield
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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual…
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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…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think.…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like…
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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…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
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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…
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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…
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The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
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Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.
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When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does…
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We live with many thoughts, emotions, and habits, but at the same time we have other eyes, another mind capable…
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The opportunity to think with another mind is my preferred mode of travel.
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No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
— Arnold Bennett
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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of…
— Mary Astell
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When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.
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A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some…
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it?…
— Charles de Lint
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If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over."…
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