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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.