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21 " All those kisses. There must have been a thousand. They engulfed me like some kind of all consuming dream where I became very alive and very relaxed at the same time. "
― Sara Sheridan , Ma Polinski's Pockets
22 " Sometimes you don’t even have to have sex at all, and for that kind of sicko, you charge double. "
― Sara Sheridan , The Pleasure Express
23 " She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean. "
― Sara Sheridan
24 " It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. "
― Sara Sheridan , The Secret Mandarin
25 " What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go? "
26 " His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide sky, the hard surface of the roof, the date palms and the water wells. "
― Sara Sheridan , Secret of the Sands
27 " We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex. "
― Sara Sheridan , Truth Or Dare
28 " 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. "
29 " 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. "
30 " I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. "
31 " I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head. "
32 " I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show. "
33 " 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. "
34 " Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire. "
35 " When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time. "
36 " I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it. "
37 " I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say that graphic violence does not exist. It's just that I find it quite harrowing and I much prefer if it isn't completely outlined for me because my imagination can do that. "
38 " Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction. "
39 " The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum. "
40 " 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. "