R. B. Sheridan Quotes

He often came back ‘all thinky’ from work.

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

I want to be able to love youmore than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me, Bree. Please teach me. Don't let me destroy this.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter.

I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.

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

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was . . .

We are home to each other now.

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

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.

In the industry, trying out new genres is not always encouraged but what I've discovered is that as a writer, a jaunt outside my comfort zone generally brings new skills to the main body of my work.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.

I love writing, and just as much, I love undertaking research.

The space where I write is in my head, I suppose.

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.

As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.

Today is the anniversary of my husband’s death, " Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.

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

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed.

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.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

People see what they expect to see.

The law don’t like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

One of my favourite parts of writing is doing the research. It's the door into that magical reading/writing state - the raw material for making the story real.

You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.

The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

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.

Cases fired by emotion rather than money were dangerous.

People who inspire such contradictory emotions must be worthwhile, I reasoned.

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.