Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan

"Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify."
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"Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify."
Sara Sheridan
"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
Sara Sheridan
"It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to."
Sara Sheridan
"Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!"
Sara Sheridan
"Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric."
Sara Sheridan
"Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world."
Sara Sheridan
"Writers need each other."
Sara Sheridan
"I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn."
Sara Sheridan
"One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories."
Sara Sheridan
"Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops."
Sara Sheridan
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
Sara Sheridan
"Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it."
Sara Sheridan
"Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you."
Sara Sheridan
"Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today."
Sara Sheridan
"My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past."
Sara Sheridan
"The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?"
Sara Sheridan
"For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure."
Sara Sheridan
"I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life."
Sara Sheridan
"I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too."
Sara Sheridan
"Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job."
Sara Sheridan
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