Quotes by : Diane Setterfield

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass....

You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing....

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener....

But pecuniary interest is clearly not in your nature. How quaint. I have written about people who don't....

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

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime you have to draw the line somewhere.....

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

People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh.....

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

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