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Sara Sheridan Quotes

Scottish - Writer | June 7, 1968 -

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.

Work Book Easy You Never Write

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.

Job Value Control Revolution White

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.

Myself Architecture World Book Lucky

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Age Science Early More Historical

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Crime Successful Scottish Genre

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.

Culture Creative Think Values Wall

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.

Never Seen Well English Scotland

I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders.

Grateful Support Enjoyed Libraries

The world loves the 1950s.

World 1950s Loves

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.

Wind Watches You Digital Oyster Era

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.

Best Day Royalty You Choice Rock

The cosmetic industry really took off in the 1950s.

1950s Industry Off Really Cosmetic

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