Sara Sheridan Quotes

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I see myself as a story teller.

I've just always been very interested in story above all.

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix.

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

There are so many stories to be told, by so many good writers.

I've always been fascinated with storytelling.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I don't like books, they're all fact, no heart.