Sara Sheridan Quote #1
I am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.
Sara Sheridan Quote #2
A chap wouldn’t hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta.
Sara Sheridan Quote #3
A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.?
Sara Sheridan Quote #4
A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.
Sara Sheridan Quote #5
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
Sara Sheridan Quote #6
A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.
Sara Sheridan Quote #7
Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.
Sara Sheridan Quote #8
All those kisses. There must have been a thousand. They engulfed me like some kind of all consuming dream where I became very alive and very relaxed at the same time.
Sara Sheridan Quote #9
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Sara Sheridan Quote #10
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 Quote #11
Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.
Sara Sheridan Quote #12
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
Sara Sheridan Quote #13
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Sara Sheridan Quote #14
As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.
Sara Sheridan Quote #15
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 issues in society today.
Sara Sheridan Quote #16
As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.
Sara Sheridan Quote #17
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
Sara Sheridan Quote #18
At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry’s tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.
Sara Sheridan Quote #19
At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
Sara Sheridan Quote #20
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 carbon copies.
Sara Sheridan Quote #21
Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.
Sara Sheridan Quote #22
Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.
Sara Sheridan Quote #23
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
Sara Sheridan Quote #24
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 Quote #25
Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.
Sara Sheridan Quote #26
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 Quote #27
Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.
Sara Sheridan Quote #28
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
Sara Sheridan Quote #29
Communism,” I observed, “is a pile of wank.
Sara Sheridan Quote #30
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.
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