Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”

— Sara Sheridan

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

— 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

“The 1950s is a key decade in the 20th Century. Each year has a distinctive flavour.”

— Sara Sheridan

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.”

— Sara Sheridan

“There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living…

— Sara Sheridan

“I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.”

— Sara Sheridan

“He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.”

— 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

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

— Sara Sheridan

“The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your…

— Sara Sheridan

“He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring…

— 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

“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales…

— Sara Sheridan

“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They…

— Sara Sheridan

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday.…

— Sara Sheridan

“As a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of…

— Sara Sheridan

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female…

— Sara Sheridan

“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,…

— Sara Sheridan

“I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I have always been a night owl rather than a lark.”

— Sara Sheridan

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

— Sara Sheridan

“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

“You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.”

— Sara Sheridan

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

— Sara Sheridan

“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

— Sara Sheridan

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

“You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.”

— Sara Sheridan

“They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Musicians are the worst – they’re charming if you’re lucky but they ain’t steady.”

— Sara Sheridan

“When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.”

— Sara Sheridan