“I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.” — 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
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
“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Readers are so much more important than well, just about everything.” — 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
