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I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
— Sara Sheridan
In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
— Sara Sheridan
They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.
— Sara Sheridan
A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
— 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 was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.
— Sara Sheridan
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
— 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
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
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Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
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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!
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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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You have no future when the past rules you.
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I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.
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At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
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They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
— Sara Sheridan
Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
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We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?
— Sara Sheridan
Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.
— Sara Sheridan
During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
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History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
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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
Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan
Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.
— Sara Sheridan
I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!
— Sara Sheridan
Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.
— Sara Sheridan
I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.
— 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.
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Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time.
— Sara Sheridan
He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn't shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.
— 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
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
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It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
— Sara Sheridan
Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.
— Sara Sheridan
It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
— 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
When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.
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I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.
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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
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I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
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Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
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Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman's memory. Such a night changes your life forever.
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I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.
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Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?
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Didn't young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?
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If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.
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There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.
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I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt.
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I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.
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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
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.
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He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.
— Sara Sheridan
Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.
— Sara Sheridan
I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
— 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'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
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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
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
— Sara Sheridan
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
— Sara Sheridan
If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.
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I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.
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Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.
— Sara Sheridan
Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.
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Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history, still very alive.
— Sara Sheridan
Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.
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If you tempted a poor man with a fortune, who could blame the fellow for taking what he could?
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I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
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I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
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We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
— Sara Sheridan
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.
— Sara Sheridan
Women the world over suffer restrictions.
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I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn't look like the kind of woman she is.
— Sara Sheridan
Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.
— Sara Sheridan
Digital distribution has widened the reading world.
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He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat
— Sara Sheridan