R. B. Sheridan Quotes

I want to be able to love you, more than I fear losing you, and I don’t know how.

In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.

Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?

You're safe, it's only change.

The world is changing and you’re only just becoming accustomed to it. You’re changing, I suppose. You’ve changed since I’ve known you.’‘How?’‘You’ve come more alive.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience the ocean had no intent to drown travellers.

(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.

I just think when extraordinary people are discovered, extraordinary exceptions should be made. " ~ Sarajane From Eden Forest (Part one of the Saskia Trilogy)

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

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.

There are many soul-stirring things in this world, but not many as profound as watching the beautiful man you love holding the baby you created together. No, not many.

If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.

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

I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.

Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.

If you let it, pain makes more space for love within you. And the love we carry inside makes us strong when nothing else can

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.

You couldn’t predict what was going to happen for one simple reason: people.

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

You have no future when the past rules you.

Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

I can't bear literary snobbery.

Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid

Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.

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.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir, " she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel.

A paucity of material can open up just as many possibilities.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.