393 Quotes by Sara Sheridan

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

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

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.

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.

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

One of Scotland's most important cultural exports - stories.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.