Sara Sheridan Quotes

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both onli...

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.

About Author

Sara Sheridan (born 7 June 1968) is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our iss...

He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.

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.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

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?

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...

When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the ki...

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.