Top 80 Sara Sheridan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

2. “I’m a library user and I just don’t hoard books. To me, they’re for sharing.”

— Sara Sheridan

3. “To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.”

— Sara Sheridan

4. “At the end of the day, that’s what a family is – a group of different people who accept each other.”

— Sara Sheridan

5. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

6. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

7. “Writers need each other.”

— Sara Sheridan

8. “An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.”

— Sara Sheridan

9. “It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.”

— Sara Sheridan

10. “Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.”

— Sara Sheridan

11. “Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.”

— Sara Sheridan

12. “A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.”

— Sara Sheridan

13. “Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.”

— Sara Sheridan

14. “History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.”

— Sara Sheridan

15. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

16. “She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.”

— Sara Sheridan

17. “Often we don’t notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”

— Sara Sheridan

18. “There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art – be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.”

— Sara Sheridan

19. “Research material can turn up anywhere – in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.”

— Sara Sheridan

20. “Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.”

— Sara Sheridan

21. “The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.”

— Sara Sheridan

22. “We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.”

— Sara Sheridan

23. “I’ve found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It’s possible to make a connection with any kind of writing – as long as the writing is good.”

— Sara Sheridan

24. “Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.”

— Sara Sheridan

25. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

26. “Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious.”

— Sara Sheridan

27. “The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.”

— Sara Sheridan

28. “I didn’t expect to love being online as much as I do. I’ve met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.”

— Sara Sheridan

29. “I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir,” she said. “I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.”

— Sara Sheridan

30. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

31. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

32. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

33. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

34. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

35. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

36. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

37. “I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.”

— Sara Sheridan

38. “The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.”

— Sara Sheridan

39. “Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother’s generation.”

— Sara Sheridan

40. “She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.”

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41. “Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.”

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42. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

43. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

44. “So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on her sleeve? She had done everything she had done for the best. For king and country.”

— Sara Sheridan

45. “The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.”

— Sara Sheridan

46. “When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.”

— Sara Sheridan

47. “It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.”

— Sara Sheridan

48. “I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it’s sushi.”

— Sara Sheridan

49. “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.”

— Sara Sheridan

50. “Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.”

— Sara Sheridan