Sara Sheridan Quotes - Page 2

We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.

Google maps are one thing but there's no substitute for pounding the beat and I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to break into the back of the houses on Belgrave Place. Once I even for followed by a suspicious householder - I'd been hanging around staring at the exterior of his flat for too long.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

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.

You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?