Sara Sheridan Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

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

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• The 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

  Criticism, Level Playing Field, Levels

  "Why Writers Must Embrace Social Media, No Matter the Genre". www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2011.

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• I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

  Sara Sheridan

  Mother, Balance, Easier

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• The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

  Sara Sheridan

  Sky, Black, Crystals

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• Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Trouble

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• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  Sara Sheridan

  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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Wall, Thinking, Scotland

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• Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

  Sara Sheridan

  Scotland

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• History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

  Sara Sheridan

  Dirty, Dirty Business

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

  Sara Sheridan

  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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Kids, Aunt, Opportunity

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• Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

  Sara Sheridan

  Mother, Writing, Generations

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• At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

  Sara Sheridan

  People, The End Of The Day, Groups

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

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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.

  Sara Sheridan

  Wings, Might, Spirit

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

  Sara Sheridan

  Jobs, Imagination, Reader

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• Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

  Sara Sheridan

  Culture, Subjects

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• Writers 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

  Where We Come, Culture, Alternatives

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• It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

  Sara Sheridan

  Baby, Book, Army

  Sara Sheridan (2016). “Brighton Belle”, p.247, Kensington

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• I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

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  Erosion, Issues, Liberty

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• I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

  Sara Sheridan

  Adventure, Theatre

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• Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

  Sara Sheridan

  Dream, Responsibility, Rights

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• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

  Sara Sheridan

  Lonely, Inspiration, Clouds

  "What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth" by Sara Sheridan, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. April 24, 2013.

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• I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

  Sara Sheridan

  Believe, Eras, I Believe

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• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  Sara Sheridan

  Reading, Hunting, Years

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• My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

  Sara Sheridan

  Father, Culture, Way

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