Sarah Waters

I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie.

I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.