Diane Setterfield Quotes

• Politeness. Being nice is what’s left when you’ve failed at everything else.

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  Topics in Failure

• No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

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• Writing is more about discovery than invention.

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• When people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.

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• Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

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• People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

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• People with ambition don’t give a damn what other people think of them.

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• Life is compost.

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• Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.

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• In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

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

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• I don’t pretend reality is the same for everyone.

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• Reading can be dangerous.

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• One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what’s left when you’ve failed at everything else.

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• As for you, you are alive. But it’s not the same as living.

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• I’ve nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

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• Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

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• For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

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• 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.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Darkness, Reading

• Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.

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  Tags in Books

Diane Setterfield (25)

Birth:	22nd August, 1964
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Diane Setterfield was born in Reading, UK. She is an English novelist. Her 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. She studied French Literature at The University of Bristol. Setterfield's PhD is on autobiographical structures in André Gide's early fiction. Diane Setterfield's new novel, Bellman & Black, was published in the autumn of 2013 by Emily Bestler Books in the USA.

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