Diane Setterfield Quotes about Writing

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,

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.

Diane Setterfield

Moving, Writing, Blood

Diane Setterfield (2006). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.

Diane Setterfield

Single Mom, Writing, Ideas

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.416, 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

Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time to rot away before it can be used to nourish a work of fiction. it must be allowed to decay.

Diane Setterfield

Believe, Writing, Thinking

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

Diane Setterfield Quotes about Writing

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