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Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters
Welsh Novelist
Born: Jul 21, 1966
About Childhood Great Love Nothing You
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence. Sarah Waters
Postwar Council New House Mobility Families Affluence Story Upward Upward Mobility Then Many British
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. Sarah Waters
Work People Big Nursery Maid Maids Most Houses Were
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. Sarah Waters
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All I can do is write about whatever grabs me. Sarah Waters
Me Whatever About Write
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'. Sarah Waters
Thought Second-Rate Rather Knew Academic Well Always Even Novelist
Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night. Sarah Waters
Book Nothing Every Evolution Point Performance Come Within Does Stops Different Happen Story Pages Sealed Even Novels Play Every Night Night
I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky. Sarah Waters
Hate Sky Drop Sit Relaxed Flying Out Rigid Would Drop-Out Plane Convinced Used
The relationship you have with your mother is like nothing else. They do kind of know everything about you, even though they don't confront it. That is often a dynamic from childhood onwards. As a teenager, you want to be independent and do slightly furtive things. Sarah Waters
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I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels. Sarah Waters
Feeling Other Guests Fonder Up Than Ended Any Paying Novels
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. Sarah Waters
Big Dramas Relatively Plot About Feel Between Like Qualified Talk Sort Because Overlap Fiction Film Thing

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