Quotes by : Diane Setterfield

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves....

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of....

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

The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe....

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had....

In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.

All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my....

For at eight o’clock the world came to an end. It was reading time. The hours between eight in the....

No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once....

I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly....