Sara Sheridan
"Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream."
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"Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream."
"دعنا نكن واضحين – بالنسبة لأشخاص مثلي، المهووسين بالقصص والذين تُعد الكلمات وسيلتهم، الكتابة هي أفضل مهنة ممكنة. أعمل بجد، لكني أكسب أكثر من متوسط الأجر الوطني بينما ألهو بخيالي، وهذا بالنسبة لي حلمٌ يتحقق."
Sara Sheridan
"I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister."
"علاقتي بمارغريت تاتشر ملتبسة. فقد وصلت إلى السلطة في مايو 1979، أي قبل شهر من عيد ميلادي الحادي عشر. كنت أصغر من أن أمتلك وعيًا سياسيًا كبيرًا حينها. لكنني أتذكر ذلك جيدًا؛ أتذكر أمي وهي متحمسة على مائدة العشاء لأن بريطانيا حظيت بأول رئيسة وزراء في تاريخها."
Sara Sheridan
"Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe."
"بصفتي مقيمًا في إدنبرة، أعدّ نفسي محظوظًا للغاية؛ فلدينا أكبر مهرجان للكتاب في العالم، وعدد وافر من المكتبات والمتاحف الآسرة، وبعض من أروع فنون العمارة في أوروبا."
Sara Sheridan
"We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that."
"لا نعيش في مجتمع يسوده العدل الحقيقي، وكل امرأة نعرفها قد ذاقت مرارة ذلك."
Sara Sheridan
"Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation."
Sara Sheridan
"They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?"
Sara Sheridan
"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
Sara Sheridan
"As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles."
Sara Sheridan
"Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind."
Sara Sheridan
"I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade."
Sara Sheridan
"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
Sara Sheridan
"Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content."
Sara Sheridan
"Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital."
Sara Sheridan
"Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help."
Sara Sheridan
"The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more."
Sara Sheridan
"I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own."
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