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Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan
Scottish Writer
Born: Jun 7, 1968
Book Culture Me People World You
Related authors: Alexander McCall Smith Armando Iannucci Frances Wright Grant Morrison Henry Drummond John Burnside Robert Louis Stevenson Steven Moffat
I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix. Sara Sheridan
Cosmopolitan Mix Unique
I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi. Sara Sheridan
Food Soul Thought Out My Soul Always Sushi Turns
I said: 'I'm throwing in my job, and I'm going to write a book.' Everyone thought: 'She's off her trolley,' and it was quite crazy, really. I'm just lucky that it came off. Sara Sheridan
Crazy Book Job Thought Everyone Write Throwing She Said Came Off Going Quite Just Really Lucky Her
One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act. Sara Sheridan
War Great People Great Things Think Back Say Secrets Signed About Come Terrible Because Did Official Done Want Fifties Act Many Things
We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that. Sara Sheridan
Woman Equality Live Every Society Know Genuine Experienced
There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors. Sara Sheridan
People Old Looking Research On And Off Ways London Comedies Household Off Getting Buses Interiors Many Even Watching
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. Sara Sheridan
Change Culture Looking Live Ways Hopefully Find Writers Come Alternatives Improve Where Which Product
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. Sara Sheridan
Lonely Cloud Cocktail Inspiration Mysterious Fired Writer Perhaps Wandering Figure Two
I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his books are set in the present, and I just thought: 'You lucky, lucky beast!' because as a historical novelist, I live constantly on the edge of wondering whether tissues had been invented. Sara Sheridan
You Thought Beast Edge Research Live Books Once Background Constantly Invented Had He Because Said Been His Historical Did Wondering Just Where Whether Much Really Lucky Novelist Event Present Need Set
I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book. Sara Sheridan
Me Book Write Wrote Because Children Asked
I am incredibly jammy. I really am. Sara Sheridan
Incredibly Am Really
Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes. Sara Sheridan
Work You Book Made Myth Easy Bestseller Write Writers Never Goes Movie Again Your
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. Sara Sheridan
Financial Digital Job Value Revolution Control White Difficult Corporate Extremely Enter Critics Misconceptions Writer Put Make Around Male Middle-Aged Little Profession Away Publishers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
Crime Writers Particularly Genre Scottish Successful
I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors. Sara Sheridan
Seen Books Section Never Most Well Shelves Scotland Scottish Authors Dedicated English Set
I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan. Sara Sheridan
Good Me Criticism Giving Constructive Criticism Advice About More Constructive Writers Never Taken Sound Am Done Where Interest Turn Plan Successful Career
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. Sara Sheridan
Grateful Libraries Support Institutional Enjoyed
We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual. Sara Sheridan
You Digital Wind Summit Had Reached Hillary Equipped Era Perpetual Sir Everest Watches
The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s. Sara Sheridan
Took Cosmetic Industry Off Really
Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work. Sara Sheridan
Work Needs Editing Active Sum Marketing Minimal Only Take Writers Deliver Part Most Also Offered Expected Lucky Copy
I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones. Sara Sheridan
Write Lucky Fast
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory. Sara Sheridan
Tory Terribly Scotland Just
Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. Sara Sheridan
You Sometimes Matters Some Never Simply Get Going Right
It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms. Sara Sheridan
Fashion Respect Culture Women Words Gender Our Thousand Thousand Years Given Over Term Arms Refer Years Truly Up Conferred Lady Interesting Social Derogatory Many
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of guilt to which I was not subjected in my childhood. Members of my immediate family live all over the world - a diaspora of cousins, aunts, uncles and more in a dizzying mix. Sara Sheridan
Family Confused World Mother Father Guilt Live Immediate Members Born More Uncles Over Identity Edinburgh Always Cousins Mix Been Aunts Subjected Childhood Form Which

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