Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

— Sara Sheridan

Covert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another.

— Sara Sheridan

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose, and they haven't been caught yet!

— Sara Sheridan

Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?

— 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

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Sara Sheridan

Edinburgh is alive with words.

— Sara Sheridan

Escapers were the cream of the crop.

— Sara Sheridan

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

— Sara Sheridan