Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfieldis a British author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a New York Times No. 1 best-seller. It is written in the Gothic tradition, with echoes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Her debut novel was turned into a television film...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 August 1964
art hands breathing
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.
once-upon-a-time godmother stories
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.
people looks trouble
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.
integrity people healthy
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.
simple reason novel
I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.
book pages conan
Prescription: 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Take ten pages, twice a day, til end of course.
tragedy
Tragedy alters everything.
believe writing thinking
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.
nice ambition men
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.
ambition thinking giving
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
single-mom writing ideas
There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
past long shadow
Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?
book feelings might
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
thinking coarse
I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.