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
fascinated lives nieces notice people selves stories
I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.
book people stranger
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.
people dull facts
I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.
people bears fiction
I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.
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.
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.
book people courses
Of course I loved books more than people.
abandoning addictive consciousness ghost haunting influenced losing pleasure worlds
The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.
narrow respect serious trash
Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
easy longest sounds took trust
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
exploring led literary writers
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
garden good ideas ladder spend time wish
I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.
diary hers kept since
I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.