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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
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The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.
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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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A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.
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Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.
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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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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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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
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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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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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History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.
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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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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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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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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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The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.
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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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Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
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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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