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Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

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Sara Sheridan
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 7
Novelist
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Consistently
Writers
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Scotland
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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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I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.
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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 had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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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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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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There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
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A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.
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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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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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