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You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Easy Hard Learn Longest Me One Of The Things Process Really Relax Sounds Things Took Trust Write Writing Writing Process You

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Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Better Certainly Excess Literature Narrow Only Reading Respect Serious Than Trash

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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.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Before Children Fascinated Haunted How Know Lives Nephews Nieces Notice One Thing People Remember See Selves Stories Thing I See

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I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten.

~Diane Setterfield

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I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Always Am Because Garden Get Good Good Ideas Had Hand Happy Ideas Ladder Least More Out Spend Time Up Wish Writing I Am I Wish

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The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Abandoning Addictive Become Body Book Consciousness Ghost Haunting Influenced Losing Many Me Other Pleasure Surroundings Ways Worlds Worries Your Your Body Yourself

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My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: After Books First He Heart Her Home Knew Later Life Man Married Me More Mother Mum My Life Says Serious She Than Very Visited

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For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

~Diane Setterfield

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We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Heard Lives Made Our Our Lives Read Stories Through

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My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

~Diane Setterfield

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: August 22nd, 1964

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