Quotes by Sara Sheridan

About Sara Sheridan:

Sara Sheridan is a Scottish writer who works in a variety of genres, though predominately in historical fiction. She is the creator of the Mirabelle Bevan mysteries.
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The thing is, everything and everyone is a part of history - Alice.

Sara Sheridan

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Sara Sheridan

You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

Sara Sheridan

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

Sara Sheridan

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

Sara Sheridan

Once you’re on the pleasure express, it’s hard to get off and switch to another, slower service.

Sara Sheridan

Communism,” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

Sara Sheridan

When you want something badly enough it’s amazing what you’ll ignore.

Sara Sheridan

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

Sara Sheridan

Sometimes you don’t even have to have sex at all, and for that kind of sicko, you charge double.

Sara Sheridan

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

Sara Sheridan

I found out pretty quickly that there is a lot of money to be made if you can become the kind of woman who doesn’t look like the kind of woman she is.

Sara Sheridan

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the din...

Sara Sheridan

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice.

Sara Sheridan

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a...

Sara Sheridan

I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book.

Sara Sheridan

I am incredibly jammy. I really am.

Sara Sheridan

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

Sara Sheridan

The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Sara Sheridan

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

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Author Bio

  • NameSara Sheridan
  • DescriptionScottish novelist
  • BornJune 7, 1968
  • ProfessionNovelist