Of course I loved books more than people. - Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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

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

"When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled."

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

"I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions."