“I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childh...” — Sarah Waters Quote

“I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the time and the freedom to go into a world of my own.”

“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.”

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

“In 2016, I was pretty green. I was budding. Some flowers were shooting off.”

“I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movember.”

“Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.”