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About Quotes by Sarah Waters

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When you flip to the About page, Sarah Waters offers a concise portrait of the writer behind the stories you love. She touches on her literary roots, the themes that drive her narratives, and the way personal experience shapes the worlds she builds for readers.

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Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether its terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate…

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The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they…

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I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and…

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People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now,…

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I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher…

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All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

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“Now, from the crown of my head to the curve of my toe-nails, there was an unguent for every part of me - oil…

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“Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me—monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she…

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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

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I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought…

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

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Being in love, you know... it's not like having a canary, in a cage. When you lose one sweetheart, you can't just go out…

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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not…

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“And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar.”

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“No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells”

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“She loved these walks through London. She seemed, as she made them, to become porous, to soak in detail after detail; or else, like…

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“Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?' 'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder…

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“My locket hangs in my closet beside the glass, the only shining thing among so many shadows.”

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“Mr Bliss looked grave. 'Your brother was very sensible to warn you, Miss Astley - but sadly misinformed. There are no trams in Trafalgur…

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I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

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“It is a world that is made of love. Did you think there is only the kind of love your sister knows for her…

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