On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to read her… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
