Diane Setterfield Quotes

I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.

Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I take refuge in my books.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

I get transported when I read books.

My idea of the perfect day is nothing to do and a great book on the go.

I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes, I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the woods, by day or darkness.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.