Zitat des Tages von Sarah Waters:
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.
All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.
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.
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.
Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
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.
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.
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.