Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters
Sarah Watersis a Welsh novelist. She is best known for her novels set in Victorian society and featuring lesbian protagonists, such as Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1966
wall mind victorian
I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
novelists academic rate
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.
life-is crap
life is crap but, every day is an experience
thinking mad longing
.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.
writing i-can can-do
All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.