I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. Diane Setterfield More Quotes by Diane Setterfield More Quotes From Diane Setterfield You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303 Diane Setterfield emotional rain loss Fate, at first so amenable, so reasonable, so open to negotiation, ends up by exacting a cruel revenge for happiness. Diane Setterfield fate revenge firsts My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. Diane Setterfield mother father moving But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed. Diane Setterfield eye beautiful laughing The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world. Diane Setterfield eight morning book For it must be very lonely being dead. Diane Setterfield lonely What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books? Diane Setterfield choices book way He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did. Diane Setterfield color sorrow grief Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. Diane Setterfield like-family stories might Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny. Diane Setterfield destiny doors past Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent. Diane Setterfield call-me names needs She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. Diane Setterfield realizing ill mean We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. Diane Setterfield read our through made 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. Diane Setterfield me you relax trust 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. Diane Setterfield know remember children people I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. Diane Setterfield i-am friend jealous reading 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. Diane Setterfield i-am good happy time 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. Diane Setterfield yourself me losing book My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life. Diane Setterfield me man mother life For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. Diane Setterfield you reading ambition life
