Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down. — Sarah Pinborough Lies Copy Share Image
“I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are.” — Sarah Pinborough Death 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 Copy Share Image
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.” — Sarah Pinborough Ephemeral Copy Share Image
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something. — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Anyone who has to have the word 'charming' in their name probably isn't - just take a look at any dating site… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“...people don't ever really trust each other enough to not have doubts. No one ever truly thinks the best of anyone else.” — Sarah Pinborough Doubt Copy Share Image
“It's not that difficult, I want to say. People cheat all the time. The reasons are always selfish and base, it's the… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many… — Sarah Pinborough 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 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 Copy Share Image
“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
I hate it when it is all about the twist and when the ending comes out of nowhere. I think you should… — Sarah Pinborough 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
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 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 Anxiety 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 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 Copy Share Image
I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed… — Sarah Pinborough Hope Copy Share Image
“There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in… — Sarah Pinborough Death Copy Share Image
“When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color.” — Sarah Pinborough 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 Copy Share Image
I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner… — Sarah Pinborough 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 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 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 would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
“Then she said that truth was all relative. Truth often came down to what is the most believable version of events.” — Sarah Pinborough Relative truth 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 Ghosts 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 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
The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong. — Sarah Pinborough Adults Copy Share Image
