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Sadie Jones Quotes

English - Novelist | 1967 -

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

Yellow Road Harmony Lights Kind

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Child Ship Boy Pirate Cabin Wyoming

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Art Walking Lights Go Nothing Stage

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

Love Good Now Study Noise Used

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

Good People Face You Know Blindness

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

Funny Racism People Hair Saying You

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

Soul People Think You Relationships

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

Time Childhood Waiting Moving Think

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Life Experience My Own Own Use

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

Great Writing Picture Trying Table

I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

Start Trouble Eat Working

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

Love Think Write Pretend I Think

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