Diane Setterfield cytaty

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

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“What better place to kill time than a library?”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.”

Diane Setterfield

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“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 książka The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Reading can be dangerous.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Writing is more about discovery than invention.”

Diane Setterfield

“One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

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

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“To anyone who took the trouble to look, I was plainly visible, but when people are expecting to see nothing, that is usually what they see.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale

“Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.”

Diane Setterfield książka The Thirteenth Tale