Bogged Quote by Sarah Pinborough

“For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if…

— Sarah Pinborough

My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's…

— Sarah Pinborough

The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust…

— Sarah Pinborough

“Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety…

— Sarah Pinborough

I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you…

— Sarah Pinborough

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

— Sarah Pinborough

“The past is as ephemeral as the future—it’s all perspective and smoke and mirrors.”

— Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the…

— Sarah Pinborough

We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of…

— Sarah Pinborough

“Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for…

— Sarah Pinborough

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

— Sarah Pinborough