Scottish - Writer | June 7, 1968 -
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
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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.
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We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.
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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.
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Writers are a product of where we come from, but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.
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The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present'?
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