Sara Sheridan Quotes

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Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

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Real, People, Live For Today

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It 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.

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Understanding, Firsts, Looks

"How my niece ended up signing copies of my book" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2011.

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I 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.

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Heart, Adventure, Ends

Sara Sheridan (1998). “Truth or dare”, Random House (UK)

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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

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Jobs, Book, Research

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I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

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Notebook, Phones, House

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It 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.

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Thinking, Order, People

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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.

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Mistake, Thinking, Historical

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I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

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Soul, Bagels, Sushi

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I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

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Healing, Ideas, Tradition

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The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

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Law, Clubs, Want

Sara Sheridan (2013). “London Calling: A Mirabelle Bevan Mystery:”, p.38, Birlinn

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For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.

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Writing, Adventure, Curiosity

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Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

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Archives, Research, Charity

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

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Fields, Expertise, Core

"Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

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Book, Trouble

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Change 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.

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Wings, Might, Spirit

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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

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Jobs, Imagination, Reader

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At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother when she had been unwell, spending an afternoon with the children, sending money to my sister or kissing Henry's tiny head as he slept in the nursery before I left. I thought of every detail and afterwards I felt better. Hellfire and brimstone have never appealed to me and I admit I become easily confused thinking of right and wrong. But I do understand kindness.

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Mother, Children, Kindness

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She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

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Rain, Ocean, Grandmother

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The 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.

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Writing, Long, People

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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

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Writing, Thinking, Assuming

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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

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Class, Scotland, World

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

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Wall, Thinking, Scotland

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History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

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Dirty, Dirty Business

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Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

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Bees

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Aunts 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.

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Kids, Aunt, Opportunity

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