Books Quotes by Sara Sheridan

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

— Sara Sheridan

“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

— Sara Sheridan

“No one's book is perfect.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Bookshops are at the coalface of our industry.”

— Sara Sheridan

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

— Sara Sheridan

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

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

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all…

— Sara Sheridan

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

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

“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt…

— Sara Sheridan

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

“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian…

— Sara Sheridan

I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his…

— Sara Sheridan

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping…

— Sara Sheridan

“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

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

— Sara Sheridan

“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.”

— Sara Sheridan

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

— Sara Sheridan

“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

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

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating…

— Sara Sheridan

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination…

— Sara Sheridan

“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.”

— Sara Sheridan