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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Sara Sheridan

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Grabbing
Readers
Reader
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Imagination
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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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Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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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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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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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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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies.
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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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I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
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The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
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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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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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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.
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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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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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Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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