85 Quotes by Sarah Pinborough

On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts.

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction.

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars.

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.

I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to secure your career.