Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfieldis a British author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Her debut novel was turned into a television film...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 August 1964
people looks trouble
To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.
once-upon-a-time godmother stories
Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.
names needs call-me
Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.
remember sometimes about-yourself
Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.
book pages conan
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
people horror forget
One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.
integrity people healthy
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
library better-place
What better place to kill time than a library?
book ice law
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head.
void
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
children book nostalgic
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.
book lines world
There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.
book reading light
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.
broken stories pieces
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.