It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“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,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“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… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
