Quotes by Sara Sheridan

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

A 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.

I cant 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. Im just delighted theyre reading them at all!

When youre depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because its a smaller world than London.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

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

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.


If youve been hurt and youve grieved and youve been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir, she said. I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.


Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writers job.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.