“Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.” — 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
“Occasionally a particular word or phrase in a letter or diary has sparked an entire plot - like an echo from history,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Our business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — 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
“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
“Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.” — 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
Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation. — 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
