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My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.

Diane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 22
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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
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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.
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Reading can be dangerous.
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Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.
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What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
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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.
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What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?
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As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.
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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
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A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.
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Tragedy alters everything.
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
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Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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For it must be very lonely being dead.
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My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.
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