"Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness……" — Diane Setterfield

"Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover."

— 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 Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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