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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

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings.

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

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

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

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

Diane Setterfield

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

Diane Setterfield