Writers need each other.

— Sara Sheridan

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

— Sara Sheridan

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

— Sara Sheridan

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

— Sara Sheridan

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

— Sara Sheridan

Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre.

— Sara Sheridan

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

— Sara Sheridan

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

— Sara Sheridan

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

— Sara Sheridan