Sarah Waters Quotes & Sayings
26 most famous Sarah Waters quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 58 year old Welsh novelist born on Jul 21, 1966.
“I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.”
“Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.”
“The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.”
“All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.”
“I do love the past but wouldn't want to live in it.”
“I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.”
“I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.”
“I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.”
“I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.”
“I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.”
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