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The early '20s were like the waist of an hourglass. Lots of things were hurtling toward it and squeezing through it and then hurtling out the other side.
— Sarah Waters
Tags: through, side, things, like

Other Quotes by "Sarah Waters"

Sometimes I think I'd be perfectly happy to go on rewriting 'Tipping the Velvet' forever because it was so much fun.
— Sarah Waters
Tags: fun, go, think, happy
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
Tags: academic, thought, well, always
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
Tags: terrorism, climate-change, world, change
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
— Sarah Waters
Tags: most, big, people, work
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.
— Sarah Waters
Tags: research, time, myself, love
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