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. Diane Setterfield More Quotes by Diane Setterfield More Quotes From Diane Setterfield Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course. Diane Setterfield conan pages book There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Diane Setterfield prisoner experts hands I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. Diane Setterfield important believe book My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. Diane Setterfield frail genius dirty But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children. Diane Setterfield secret house children Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing. Diane Setterfield breathing hands art 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. Diane Setterfield godmother once-upon-a-time stories 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. Diane Setterfield trouble people looks People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. Diane Setterfield healthy integrity people There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to God and to the person who holds it and to very few privileged others. To pronounce such a name either ones own or someone else's is to invite jeopardy. This it seemed was such a name. Diane Setterfield should names culture Tragedy alters everything. Diane Setterfield tragedy There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas. Diane Setterfield single-mom writing ideas People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them. Diane Setterfield ambition people thinking I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is. Diane Setterfield coarse thinking Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. Diane Setterfield nice ambition men Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant. Diane Setterfield appetite hunger book Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay. Diane Setterfield writing believe thinking The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now. Diane Setterfield funeral forever long 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. Diane Setterfield stranger book people She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it. Diane Setterfield feelings might book
