Sara Sheridan Quotes

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbo...

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

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 differenc...

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

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...

I'm in my 40s and I'm constantly surprised by how much my childhood still plays a part in my life.

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someon...

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.