01c. 1968 ADThat boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
02c. 1968 ADThose who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
03c. 1968 ADThe lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
05c. 1968 ADThe financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
06c. 1968 ADAs it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
07c. 1968 ADIt is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
08c. 1968 ADI'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
09c. 1968 ADOn of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
13c. 1968 ADYou became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
14c. 1968 ADAunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
15c. 1968 ADShe was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
16c. 1968 ADIt took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
17c. 1968 ADThe telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
18c. 1968 ADI have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
19c. 1968 ADOn Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
20c. 1968 ADIt may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
21c. 1968 ADIt's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
22c. 1968 ADI've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
23c. 1968 ADHistory is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
24c. 1968 ADI love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.Sara Sheridan / quote ↗
