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

- Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

- Diane Setterfield

I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and our advent is something tha…

- 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

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…

- Diane Setterfield

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

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

- Diane Setterfield

Of course I loved books more than people.

- Diane Setterfield

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