"There is something about words. In expert hands,……" — Diane Setterfield
"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner."
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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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Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.
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Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we…
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Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.
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David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource…
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Will none of the powers that be realize what Brian Wilson did with the chords. Deftly taking from all sources,…
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Like a cross between Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions and Janice Lee's Damnation, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is at once smart and…
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Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively,…
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It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely…
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