Sarah Waters Quotes

Novels are nothing but evolution, but there does come a point when that stops, and the story is sealed within the pages of the book. That doesn't happen with a play. Even performances are different every night.

Sarah Waters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: July 21, 1966

Topics

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Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Joe Hill

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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.

Andrew Sean Greer

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What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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I get work done in half the time if the family is still asleep. When my family wakes up, I've already had a productive morning and am ready to enjoy breakfast with them before I start conquering the rest of my day.

John Rampton

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Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Ameen Rihani

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Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.

Stephen Rodrick

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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Martin Yan

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I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

Jonathan Ive

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Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.

Dom DeLuise

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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

August Wilson

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I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Mark Harmon

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