393 Quotes by Sara Sheridan

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or another.

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

On 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.

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.

Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers' job specification.

I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.