75 Quotes by Sara Sheridan about Writing
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Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.
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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.
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I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
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History makes my mouth water - and that is as much because of the voids in what documentation remains as what is set in stone.
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.
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One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.
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I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
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The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.
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