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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

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
Reading, Joy, Stage
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to the ground and knocked myself out. I can still feel the scar under my fringe now. Reading can be dangerous.)

Diane Setterfield
Baby, Wall, Reading
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Reading can be dangerous.

Diane Setterfield
Reading, Dangerous
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking. Though they're not old enough to be valuable for their age alone, nor important enough to be sought after by collectors, my charges are dear to me, even if, as often as not, they are as dull on the inside as on the outside. No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down.

Diane Setterfield
Reading, Writing, Two
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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
Book, Reading, Light
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Diane Setterfield
Morning, Book, Reading
Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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