Storytelling Quotes by Sara Sheridan

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

— Sara Sheridan

“Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.”

— Sara Sheridan

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

— Sara Sheridan

“We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.”

— Sara Sheridan

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

— Sara Sheridan

“The bonds between a family are strange indeed.”

— Sara Sheridan

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

— Sara Sheridan

“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

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

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

— Sara Sheridan

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

— Sara Sheridan

“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

“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Communism,” I observed, “is a pile of wank.”

— Sara Sheridan

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

— Sara Sheridan