"When one is nothing, one invents. It fills…" — Diane Setterfield

"When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void."

— 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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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness… — Joseph Addison
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can… — Jack Black
One thought fills immensity. — William Blake
Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think… — Bono
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known,… — Geraldine Brooks
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart. — Emanuel Cleaver
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a… — Marie Antoinette
This book fills a much-needed gap. — Moses Hadas
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a… — Annie Dillard
Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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