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Sara Sheridan Inspirational Quotes (38)

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While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.
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Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.
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I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
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People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
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We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
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For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
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It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
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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.
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
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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.
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History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.
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I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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