Diane Setterfield - People Quotes

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

Diane Setterfield
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.

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

Diane Setterfield
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

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

Diane Setterfield
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
People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

Diane Setterfield