"I read old novels. The reason is simple.……" — Diane Setterfield

"I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings."

— Diane Setterfield

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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think.…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually…
Of course I loved books more than people.
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 Endings Quotes

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True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists… — Danny Boyle
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very… — George Clooney
The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles. — Jeffrey Gitomer
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Laozi
...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could… — Kristin Hunter
Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be. — Unknown Author
In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories… — Jeanette Winterson
From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer… — Corey Taylor
Story book endings, fairytales coming true. — Carrie Underwood
In order to improve your game, you must study the endgame before everything else. For whereas the endings can be… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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