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Sarah Pinborough
Sarah Pinborough
English Writer
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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it. Sarah Pinborough
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My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved. Sarah Pinborough
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The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction. Sarah Pinborough
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. Sarah Pinborough
Truth Mind See Reader Narrator Clues
Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad. Sarah Pinborough
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Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. Sarah Pinborough
Sweet Seven Shake Knew Tales Fairy Fairy Tales Surface Feminist Were Up Six Maybe Even Needed
I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre. Sarah Pinborough
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories. Sarah Pinborough
Love Writing Would Just Different Stories Many Appear
It's easier to get into controlling relationships when you're young because you're much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up on that. If they like to make decisions for you at the start of a relationship, it can be a warning sign. Sarah Pinborough
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On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. Sarah Pinborough
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I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars. Sarah Pinborough
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