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Top 10 Diane Setterfield Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 11, 2020

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.”

― Diane Setterfield

“Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.”

― Diane Setterfield

“My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.”

― Diane Setterfield

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