37 Quotes by Sadie Jones

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.