Sara Sheridan

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can…

— Sara Sheridan

“He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat”

— Sara Sheridan

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't…

— Sara Sheridan

“We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.”

— Sara Sheridan

“History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is…

— Sara Sheridan

“In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much…

— Sara Sheridan

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect…

— Sara Sheridan

“I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.”

— Sara Sheridan

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane…

— Sara Sheridan

Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right.

— Sara Sheridan

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

— Sara Sheridan

“Most fellas like the races, though, Miss. It’s only human nature”

— Sara Sheridan

“While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a…

— Sara Sheridan

“I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of…

— Sara Sheridan

“The library is a symbol of freedom.”

— Sara Sheridan

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

— Sara Sheridan

“When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and…

— Sara Sheridan

“He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you…

— Sara Sheridan

“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom…

— Sara Sheridan

“I thought of myself mixing the fragrance of a certain day – the heavy musk of the hillside after the rain with…

— Sara Sheridan