Quotes by Sara Sheridan

“His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears the wide sky, the hard surface of the roof, the date palms and the water wells.”

“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”

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

“I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.”

“A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his minds eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a wo...”

“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

“Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.”

“Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.”

“Edinburgh is alive with words.”

“A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.”

“A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.”

“I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!”

“There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”

“When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the...”

“When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.”

“Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendo...”

“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch wh...”

“I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.”

“I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.”

“I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.”