Sara Sheridan Quotes

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it’s a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid.

~ Sara Sheridan

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.


~ Sara Sheridan

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

~ Sara Sheridan

I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.

~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Sara Sheridan

We are living in glorious days where each readers' voice can be heard.

~ Sara Sheridan

During the war some of the country’s sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

~ Sara Sheridan

There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.

~ Sara Sheridan

If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy things that don’t make sense.

~ Sara Sheridan

Communism,” I observed, “is a pile of wank.

~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Sara Sheridan

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

~ Sara Sheridan

The library is a symbol of freedom.

~ Sara Sheridan

As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

~ Sara Sheridan

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

~ Sara Sheridan

Afternoon drinkers shifted in the gloom as if they sensed new blood.

~ Sara Sheridan

People are so different in wartime. No one gets to be ordinary. Not really.

~ Sara Sheridan

I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

~ Sara Sheridan

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

~ Sara Sheridan

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash.

~ Sara Sheridan

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

~ Sara Sheridan

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

~ Sara Sheridan

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


~ Sara Sheridan

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

~ Sara Sheridan

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

~ Sara Sheridan

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

~ Sara Sheridan

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister.

~ Sara Sheridan

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream.

~ Sara Sheridan