DSDiane Setterfield

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Diane Setterfield

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

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02Undated

...but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

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03Undated

No one can hold you to a decision made in the middle of the night.

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04Undated

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

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05Undated

You leave the previous book with idea's and themes - characters even - caught in the fibers of your clothing - and when you open a new book, they are still with you.

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06Undated

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.

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