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Sara Sheridan

"Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time."

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"Parts of my 20s and 30s have gone by in a flash but my childhood is with me all the time."

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"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing."

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"A Tennyson garden, heavy with scent, languid; the return of the word swoon."

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"I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk..."

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"Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored."

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"The memory will most likely come to me when I least expect it. When I'm in the middle of something else."

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"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

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"When you don't know where to start,just go to a place you miss so much."

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"When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present."

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"Every time I look at you autumn leaves come in between - does it matter they're the color of your hair - or they still fall in my memory?..."

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"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."
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"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
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"Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it."
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"They march into the future to the rhythm of the past."
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"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
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"Once you're on the pleasure express, it's hard to get off and switch to another, slower service."
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"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."
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"Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation."
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"I am a storyteller, not a historian, and it's my ambition to create something compelling - something unputdownable and riveting - that chimes with the real history but is, in fact, fiction."
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