Sara Sheridan Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Sara Sheridan on Wise Famous Quotes.
I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.
In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
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.
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.
He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity.
Maria didn't fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
He didn't look as if he'd been through a whirlwind exactly but he'd certainly endured a stiff breeze.
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.
It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.
The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.
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.
If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.
If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?
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?
There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.
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.
He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.
I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from.
When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.
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.
It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us.
People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.
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.
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.
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?
History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.