We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed…

- Sarah Waters

I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath come upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her.…

- Sarah Waters

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

- Sarah Waters

Respect your characters, even the ­minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about wha…

- Sarah Waters

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

- Sarah Waters

Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought:…

- Sarah Waters

life is crap but, every day is an experience

- Sarah Waters

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

- Sarah Waters

Even ashes are a part of your freedom.

- Sarah Waters