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Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Tory
Scotland
Terribly

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I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
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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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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.
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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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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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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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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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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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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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For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.
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Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.
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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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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
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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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