Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
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"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
Sara Sheridan
"An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side."
Sara Sheridan
"The fifties is a decade when every year is markedly different from the one before and after. That doesn't happen every decade. 1983 isn't that much different from 1986. But 1953 is very different from 1956."
Sara Sheridan
"History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie."
Sara Sheridan
"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."
Sara Sheridan
"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."
Sara Sheridan
"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."
Sara Sheridan
"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
Sara Sheridan
"One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real."
Sara Sheridan
"I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business."
Sara Sheridan
"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
Sara Sheridan
"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
Sara Sheridan
"Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long."
Sara Sheridan
"In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping these out - checking which windows looked least secure and figuring out how to scale the mews houses to the rear to get her inside. A man came out at one point, 'What are you doing' he questioned me. 'The thing is, I'm writing a book,' I started with a smile. He waved me off, his hand as wide as a tennis racket. 'Everyone is writing a book, my dear,' he said. Between you and I, it's his house that MIrabelle ends up breaking into."
Sara Sheridan
"Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time."
Sara Sheridan
"As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective."
Sara Sheridan
"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
Sara Sheridan
"Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind."
Sara Sheridan
"I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful."
Sara Sheridan
"It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything."
Sara Sheridan
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