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Writer Quotes by Sara Sheridan

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Imagination is the writer’s daily job, turning letters, diaries, and even summer blockbusters into connections with readers. A novelist builds stories rather than recreating real events, while social media lets authors see what fans enjoy and discover new books. Readers now choose how and where to buy books, expanding the reading landscape.

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“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

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Writers need each other.

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I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.

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“The library is a symbol of freedom.”

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

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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

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“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

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“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

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“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

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

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“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

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“It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.”

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“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.”

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Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination…

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“Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job…

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“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.”

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

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I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all…

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“As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that…

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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of…

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The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put…

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

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“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I…

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I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection…

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

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Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is…

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“Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields…

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“In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt…

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“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping…

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“It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like…

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“As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on…

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“The space where I write is in my head, I suppose.”

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

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“Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.”

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Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

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I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

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“I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.”

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

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“When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.”

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If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

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

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“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…

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

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

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