"I never expected my books to do even……" — Sarah Waters
"I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day."
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37 Quotes by Sarah Waters
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There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
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I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
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For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
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I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
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Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
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Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
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We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself…
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
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And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt…
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Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
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It's a curious, wanting thing.
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More Books Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But…
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I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed…
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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