01c. 1968 ADEveryone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
02c. 1968 ADBeing able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
03c. 1968 ADI hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
04c. 1968 ADWriting the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
05c. 1968 ADWriting is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
06c. 1968 ADThe new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
07c. 1968 ADIt's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
08c. 1968 ADCrime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
10c. 1968 ADOur business is communication oftentimes through the medium of stories but our capacity has a far greater scope - to entertain certainly, but also to stimulate debate, to mark up changes and differences and that way, to maybe, just now and then, to change the world.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
12c. 1968 ADI'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
14c. 1968 ADMany existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
16c. 1968 ADWriters are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
17c. 1968 ADIt often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
18c. 1968 ADI had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
20c. 1968 ADI am torn between the freedom of this adventure and the benefits of civilization despite its constraints.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
22c. 1968 ADI 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 / quote ↗
24c. 1968 ADIt is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
