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" For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading. "

Diane Setterfield

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" My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life. "

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" The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways. "

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" Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect. "

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" I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember. "

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" We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives. "

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" I have kept a reading diary since I was 18. I am jealous of my friend who has kept hers since she was ten. "

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" My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. "

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