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....

As one tends to the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. I clean them, do minor repairs, keep them....

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

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are....

My study throngs with characters waiting to be written. Imaginary people, anxious for a life, who tug....

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues it is nothing that a good night's sleep cannot....

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

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there....

When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years,....