"I have kept a reading diary since I……" — Diane Setterfield
"I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten."
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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site.
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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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More Diary Quotes
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and…
— James M. Barrie
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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
— Jo Brand
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
— Jackie Chan
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Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning…
— Laozi
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I realize I didn't like you. I just wanted to meet someone that understood me. I didn't know that you…
— Jo Yoon-hee
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
— Unknown Author
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These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
— Richard Peck
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Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.
— Winona Ryder
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I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the…
— Kenneth Williams
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I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.
— Kid Cudi
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