Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan

"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
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"I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there."
Sara Sheridan
"I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached."
Sara Sheridan
"On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk."
Sara Sheridan
"It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book."
Sara Sheridan
"It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter."
Sara Sheridan
"I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate."
Sara Sheridan
"The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation."
Sara Sheridan
"Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies."
Sara Sheridan
"On of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper."
Sara Sheridan
"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
Sara Sheridan
"As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture."
Sara Sheridan
"I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community."
Sara Sheridan
"The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction."
Sara Sheridan
"It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other."
Sara Sheridan
"Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true."
Sara Sheridan
"There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers."
Sara Sheridan
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
Sara Sheridan
"Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification."
Sara Sheridan
"I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better."
Sara Sheridan
"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
Sara Sheridan
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