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Sara Sheridan

(1968) Novelist Ireland

305 quotes in 1198 categories

Sara Sheridan’s writing balances wit and warmth, delivering stories that feel both intimate and expansive. Across three hundred five quotations you’ll sense the same relatable honesty that makes her narratives resonate.

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Sara Sheridan is a novelist from Ireland, best known for Operation Goodwood.

Quick Facts About Sara Sheridan

Born: June 7, 1968
Nationality: Ireland
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Operation Goodwood
Known for: Brighton Belle

About Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan is a Scottish activist and writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominantly in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Sara Sheridan

“People see what they expect to see.”

Expect

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

Communism

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“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

Bear

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“We are home to each other now.”

Home

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“Edinburgh is alive with words.”

Alive

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I am incredibly jammy. I really am.

Am

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The world loves the 1950s.

1950s

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I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

Cosmopolitan

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I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

Bagels

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“Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket.”

Hide

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“You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.”

Future

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“Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.”

Community

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“Digital distribution has widened the reading world.”

Books

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“It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.”

Book

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“I have always been a night owl rather than a lark.”

Lark

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“I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.”

Marriage

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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or…

Art

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“I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even…

Anecdote

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“It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s…

Dance

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“He didn’t look as if he’d been through a whirlwind exactly but he’d certainly endured a stiff breeze.”

Appearance

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“I had never done anything yet that was conventional – why should the love of my life be any different?”

Convention

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“In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his…

Desert

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“Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.”

Archives

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“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.”

Escapism

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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…

Archives

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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…

Anecdote

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The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events…

Books

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I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday.…

Ambivalent

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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…

Career

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Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating…

Architecture

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“Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They…

Archives

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“Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring…

Breaking and entering

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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…

Anecdote

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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…

Discipline

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At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food…

Action

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“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least…

Crime

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“In the doorway of Fortnum & Mason a young couple were kissing, oblivious to the world. The neon signs mounted on the…

Clubs

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“Mirabelle? Mirabelle Bevan? Well, I’ll be blowed!” Mirabelle started, almost spilling her drink. It took her a moment to realize who the…

Gaze

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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…

Book

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Writers need each other.

Need

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Sara Sheridan by topic

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