Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield is a British author known for her captivating blend of gothic and mystery fiction. She gained international acclaim with her debut novel, "The Thirteenth Tale," which became a bestseller. Born in 1964, Setterfield studied French literature, earning a Ph.D. before transitioning to writing. Her works, including "Bellman & Black" and "Once Upon a River," often explore themes of storytelling, identity, and the supernatural.
Book summaries for books written by Diane Setterfield
Quotes
All children mythologize their birth. It is a universal trait.
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation.
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you?
I have always thought that there is no more poetic a job than that of being a bookseller. To sell a book is to sell a dream.
The biographer always gets the last word.
Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you?
My life's work has been to encourage people to tell their stories. If they tell them, they own them. If they own them, they can write them down and own them on paper.
Reading is a joy for my mother. She loves the feeling of a book, the ink and the paper, the rustle of the leaves, the crackle of the spine.
It's a shame when the things that are supposed to help you end up causing you more pain.
I was not alone. I can never be alone again. I had him in my head, like a tune that I couldn't stop humming.