Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan

"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."
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"An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come."
Sara Sheridan
"While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all."
Sara Sheridan
"Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted."
Sara Sheridan
"I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?"
Sara Sheridan
"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us."
Sara Sheridan
"In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane."
Sara Sheridan
"Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited."
Sara Sheridan
"I believe the era of the militant lady is back."
Sara Sheridan
"Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes."
Sara Sheridan
"Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there."
Sara Sheridan
"I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary."
Sara Sheridan
"I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head."
Sara Sheridan
"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
Sara Sheridan
"People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two."
Sara Sheridan
"Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire."
Sara Sheridan
"When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time."
Sara Sheridan
"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."
Sara Sheridan
"I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that."
Sara Sheridan
"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
Sara Sheridan
"Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction."
Sara Sheridan
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