Diane Setterfield Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 22, 1964

Topics

YourselfLosingMeBookBodyBecome

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

Jimmy Kimmel

RealityMysteryTryingDrunkLook

As an actor, I have a lot of fear, thinking that if I speak my mind, or something that feels like it deviates from the norm as a woman, am I going to be made to disappear in my industry?

Jessica Chastain

FearWomanMindSpeakThinking

I love my mother. I reach out to my mother.

Jeanne Phillips

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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

John Sandford

WritingYouLookFindDownNice

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

Stephen Rodrick

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I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.

Sue Monk Kidd

GreatExperienceSayingEndLearn

We've lost touch with our souls. We've been nourishing our minds, our relational skills, our theological knowledge, our psychological well-being, our physiological health... but we've abandoned our souls.

Mike Yaconelli

KnowledgeHealthLostSkillsTouch

If I was to get nervous, then I'm wasting my energy.

Michelle Carter

EnergyNervousGetWastingThen

If the Internet, ubiquitous as it now is, proves too dangerous in the hands of the psychologically fragile, perhaps access to it ought to be restricted. We ban drunks from driving because they're a danger to others. Isn't it time we did the same to trolls?

Milo Yiannopoulos

TimeInternetDrivingHandsNow

I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar.

Joni Mitchell

GuitarGotDifferent

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

Delta Burke

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You know, if you meet someone for the first time, they're not going to bite you.

Chloe Kim

TimeSomeoneYouKnowMeetFirst

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