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" It's easy to laugh at etiquette, but in a hundred years, our children's grandchildren will almost certainly be laughing at us. "
Sara Sheridan
Us
Grandchildren
Laugh
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" I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his books are set in the present, and I just thought: 'You lucky, lucky beast!' because as a historical novelist, I live constantly on the edge of wondering whether tissues had been invented. "
Sara Sheridan
Thought
You
Edge
" I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister. "
Sara Sheridan
Relationship
Birthday
Mother
" I wrote 'I'm Me' because I was asked to write a children's book. "
Sara Sheridan
Book
Because
Write
" I am incredibly jammy. I really am. "
Sara Sheridan
Am
Really
I Am
" Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England. "
Sara Sheridan
Wall
Culture
Creative
" Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work. "
Sara Sheridan
Work
Marketing
Lucky
" Personally I estimate about a third of my time is spent on author events, social media and traditional publicity. "
Sara Sheridan
Media
Events
About
" One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act. "
Sara Sheridan
Done
Secrets
War
" The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s. "
Sara Sheridan
Really
Off
Industry
" Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe. "
Sara Sheridan
Book
Myself
World
" The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Frankie Laine all topped the charts in the '50s. Load a playlist of rock n' roll royalty. You're spoilt for choice. "
Sara Sheridan
Day
Best
Choice
" I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix. "
Sara Sheridan
Cosmopolitan
Unique
Mix
" I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones. "
Sara Sheridan
Lucky
Write
Fast
" I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel. "
Sara Sheridan
Writing
Home
Friend
" The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. "
Sara Sheridan
White
Control
Revolution
" The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. "
Sara Sheridan
Inspiration
Lonely
Cloud
" My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't have one identity. I'm Scottish, British, European, Humanist, Atheist and in part at least, culturally Jewish. "
Sara Sheridan
Family
Identity
Truth
" Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is the best job possible. I work hard, but I earn more than the national average wage while I play with my imagination, and for me, that's a dream. "
Sara Sheridan
Words
Best
Work
" I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors. "
Sara Sheridan
Well
Scotland
Never
" I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession. "
Sara Sheridan
Grades
Early
Interesting
" We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual. "
Sara Sheridan
Watches
Digital
Oyster
" Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. "
Sara Sheridan
Genre
Scottish
Crime
" How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow. "
Sara Sheridan
Me
Cow
Book
" I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi. "
Sara Sheridan
Thought
Sushi
My Soul
" Scotland just isn't terribly Tory. "
Sara Sheridan
Scotland
Just
Terribly
" There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting on and off buses in London, looking at household interiors. "
Sara Sheridan
London
Research
Old
" Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. "
Sara Sheridan
Matters
Right
Sometimes
" Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes. "
Sara Sheridan
Write
You
Book
" As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age. "
Sara Sheridan
Historical
Science
Early
" We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that. "
Sara Sheridan
Live
Woman
Society