Sara Sheridan Quotes

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• I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
• Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
• An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been…
• While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being…
• I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which…
• I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose…
• I believe the era of the militant lady is back.
• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail…
• Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and…
• I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my…
• History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
• For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
• I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.
• Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my…
• 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 kind…
• There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or…
• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net…
• It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
• Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways…

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