Famous Diane Setterfield Quotes

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

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

  • She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it. – Diane Setterfield

    She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.– Diane Setterfield

  • She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.– Diane Setterfield

  • But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. – Diane Setterfield

    But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.– Diane Setterfield

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

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

  • Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly? – Diane Setterfield

    Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?– Diane Setterfield

  • Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline. – Diane Setterfield

    Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.– Diane Setterfield

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

    I don’t pretend reality is the same for everyone.– Diane Setterfield

  • My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. – Diane Setterfield

    My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.– Diane Setterfield

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

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