Sarah Waters Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Sarah Waters quotes and sayings page 2 (58 year old novelist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 26 we have for her.

“I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.”

“I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.”

“I've never managed to get very far with Henry James.”

“It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.”

“My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.”

“My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.”

“My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.”

“Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.”

“I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.”

“I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely time of getting to know a period and reading its books and watching its films. I see it as a real treat.”