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
fascinated lives nieces notice people selves stories
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.
exploring led literary writers
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
moving writing blood
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
reality
I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.
way
For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.
book people courses
Of course I loved books more than people.
book reading light
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.
broken stories pieces
A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
library better-place
What better place to kill time than a library?
void
When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.
dirty genius frail
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
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.
tragedy
Tragedy alters everything.
ambition thinking giving
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.