I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the… — 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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.” — 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
“They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?” — 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
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping… — 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
“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.” — 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 are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.” — 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
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
Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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
I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events… — 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
“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job… — 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 Image
“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“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 Image
