Sara Sheridan Quotes - Page 4

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even bear to have me mime.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

When the first book out my sister-in-law read it and we were chatting at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and she said, "Oh my God, chapter six, sex and a murder," and her five year old wandered into the kitchen and said, "Sixty hamburgers?

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?

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.

When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.

In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that every child deserves, the perfect wife, meet the demands of elderly parents, and still stay sane.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and from Georgette Heyer to Agatha Christie.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

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.

He tasted of whisky and his skin was rough where he hadn’t shaved, but Mirabelle kissed him back.

Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.

Such a night cannot be shaken from a woman’s memory. Such a night changes your life forever.