{"author":"Sara Sheridan","author_id":"Sara+Sheridan","total_quotes":262,"quotes":[{"text":"There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["military","soldier","uniform"],"id":3871,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bombed when she passed familiar streets. In many places the sites were being redeveloped. That’s what seemed real now – the new buildings and the flats above them. As she hit her stride, Mirabelle smiled. It felt good to be in the big city again and on her way.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["london","nostalgia"],"id":3904,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["job","old-books","research","writer","writing"],"id":4879,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["change","era","feminism","future","historical","novelist","women"],"id":5383,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","fiction","historical","material","writer","writing"],"id":9718,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["career","desire","love","priorities"],"id":13456,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I'm drawn to the 1950s for lots of reasons - everything from the fashion to the increasing sense of freedom and modernity that builds throughout the decade.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["1950s","decade","era","fashion","fifties","freedom","history","modernity"],"id":17635,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["action","reality","story","storytelling"],"id":21012,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["archives","cultural","diaries","history","interpretation","letters","social"],"id":23245,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["books","ebooks","industry","market","publishing","writer","writing"],"id":25090,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":262,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}