Sarah Pinborough quotes

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it right in the first half, people will forgive you, and then you can move on with the story. (Sarah Pinborough)
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre. View quote
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I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching. View quote
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I'm a lot less travelled as an adult than I was as a child, but I think living in far flung places gives you a perspective on the world and people that adds flavour to your writing. View quote
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On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. View quote
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I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think. View quote
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The unreliable narrator is an odd concept. The way I see it, we're all unreliable narrators of our lives who usually have absolute trust in our self-told stories. Any truth is, after all, just a matter of perspective. View quote
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I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something. View quote
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The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction. View quote
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I just always lived in stories in my head. I believed I was a Martian princess until I was 10. I believed I was never going to die, and I'd been adopted and put on Earth because there was a war... and still sometimes, as I get older, I hope for my immortal life on Mars. View quote
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I have written in a lot of genres, that's true, and I'm not sure it's always served my career well. (Sarah Pinborough)
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up. View quote
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I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see. View quote
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Anyone who has to have the word 'charming' in their name probably isn't - just take a look at any dating site where men use 'prince charming' in their description. View quote
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I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to secure your career. View quote
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I know it's dangerous to say you want to do something different with a genre because people always take that as an insult to the genre. View quote
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Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong. View quote
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The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind. View quote
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Oh, there's a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I'm always convinced I'm going to fall flat on my face or something. View quote
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It's easier to get into controlling relationships when you're young because you're much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up on that. If they like to make decisions for you at the start of a relationship, it can be a warning sign. View quote
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I never had a moment of wanting to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress, but writing was just a thing I always did. And then I started to really enjoy it. (Sarah Pinborough)
There are stories and history everywhere in London. View quote
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