Sara Sheridan

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

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.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

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.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind__ 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.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

You couldn__ predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

You have no future when the past rules you.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.