01UndatedOften we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
02UndatedChange occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
03UndatedAs a novelist it is my job to tell stories that inspire and entertain but I am increasingly mindful that many of these historical tales (which of themselves are fascinating) relate directly to our issues in society today.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
04UndatedAn important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
05UndatedThe net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
06UndatedI've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
07UndatedYou couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
10UndatedOur archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
11UndatedIf we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
12UndatedIn wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
14UndatedA vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writing in her journal, with hazy sunlight streaming through the morning windows. The woman inhabited a world he had once thought his own – a world of publishers and reliable suppliers. A London that was confident and competent amid its grey, puddle-strewn streets.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
16UndatedCopywriters, 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.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
20UndatedA word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
21UndatedI am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
22UndatedWhen 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.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
24UndatedYou can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
