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Famous Sara Sheridan Quotes
“History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.”
“For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.”
“I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.”
“It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.”
“Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.”
“Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.”
“A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.”
“Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.”
“As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.”
“Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.”
“We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.”
“I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.”