Quotes by Sarah Pinborough - Page 1

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.
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Underneath
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It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.
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Appear
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Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.
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Mad
Opening
Insist
Narrator
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Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
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Mess
Boil
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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Considering
Genre
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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.
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Genres
Served
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Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.
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Acceptable
Adult
Lie
Right And Wrong
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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.
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Clues
Narrator
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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.
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Range
Personalities
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Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.
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Fairy
Tales
Fairy Tales
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I always found the witches and wicked stepmothers far more interesting than the 'heroines' - at least they actually did something.
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Heroines
Wicked
Witches
Always More Something
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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.
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Insult
People Always Know
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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.
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Best Way
Secure
Best Your Way
Best Way Your
Thriller
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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.
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Dating
Charming
Description
Site
Word
Prince Charming
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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.
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Moving On
Ghosts
Locations
Returning
Strange Thing
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We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one rule of the fairy tale formula that I didn't want to break.
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True Love
Charm
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Poison
Conquers
Formula
Tale
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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.
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Lied
Version
Outright
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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.
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Perspective
World Your People
Adds
Flung
World Living People
Travelled
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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.
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People Will Right
People Will Down
Bogged
Forgive
Move On
Researcher
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My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
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Emulate
Stephen King
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I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.
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Corner
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With TV, your first draft just doesn't matter. It's a skeleton, and then there's draft after draft after draft, and so many other factors influence it. It's just a whole different kind of storytelling.
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Factors
Different Kind
Draft
Skeleton
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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.
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Trust
Matter
Odd
Our Lives
Perspective
Stories
Truth Is
Unreliable
After
Concept
Narrator
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I hate it when it is all about the twist and when the ending comes out of nowhere. I think you should be surprised and shocked, but you should also think, 'Damn, I should have seen it,' because there are clues all the way through.
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Damn
Shocked
Nowhere
Clues
Ending
Surprised
Twist
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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.
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Filled
Self Conscious
Teenage
Teenage Girl
All Women
Mainly
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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.
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Historical
Planning
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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.
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Please
Warning
Controlling
Eager
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Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
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Creepy
Gore
Monsters
Scare
Scary
Thrillers
Good Great Me
Medium
Mysteries
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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.
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Adopted
Immortal
Mars
Princess
Life War Hope
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The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as the focus for the book, I went to Google and searched for unsolved murders in Victorian London, and they basically popped out at me about halfway down the first results page.
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Halfway
Lap
Thames
Victorian
Deciding
Page
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