“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it,… — Sarah Pinborough Life Copy Share Image
My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier,… — Sarah Pinborough Because Copy Share Image
The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have… — Sarah Pinborough Matter Copy Share Image
“Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me… — Sarah Pinborough Dreams Copy Share Image
I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places… — Sarah Pinborough Adds Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough He Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Smoke and mirrors Copy Share Image
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version… — Sarah Pinborough Always Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one… — Sarah Pinborough Beauty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness… — Sarah Pinborough Emptiness inside Copy Share Image
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist… — Sarah Pinborough Fairy Copy Share Image
I'm very much, like, 'We've all got to help each other.' If there's a new female writer, I'm much more likely to… — Sarah Pinborough Book Copy Share Image
The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations… — Sarah Pinborough Living Copy Share Image
Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women… — Sarah Pinborough Face Copy Share Image
I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an… — Sarah Pinborough Always Copy Share Image
I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well. — Sarah Pinborough Always Copy Share Image
I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a… — Sarah Pinborough Actress Copy Share Image
Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than… — Sarah Pinborough Creepy Copy Share Image
The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the… — Sarah Pinborough About Copy Share Image
It's easier to get into controlling relationships when you're young because you're much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up… — Sarah Pinborough Men Copy Share Image
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a… — Sarah Pinborough Average Copy Share Image
I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best… — Sarah Pinborough Best Copy Share Image
I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think. — Sarah Pinborough About Copy Share Image
Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong. — Sarah Pinborough Lie Copy Share Image
