Diane Setterfield citáty

„Když člověka utvrzujete v přesvědčení, že je dítko Štěstěny, tím velkolepěji ho můžete srazit k zemi.“

—  Diane Setterfield

„Někdo mu kdysi řekl, že touha dělat něco dobře je spolehlivým ukazatelem talentu.“

—  Diane Setterfield

„Of course I loved books more than people.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„What better place to kill time than a library?“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„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.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„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.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside the same head all the time.“

—  Diane Setterfield

„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, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„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.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„Reading can be dangerous.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„The hours between eight in the evening and one or two in the morning have always been my magic hours. Against the blue candlewick bedspread the white pages of my open book, illuminated by a circle of lamplight, were the gateway to another world.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale

„One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.“

—  Diane Setterfield, kniha The Thirteenth Tale

Zdroj: The Thirteenth Tale