Sarah Pinborough Quotes

#1. If you thought about it hard enough, you could be scared of everything.

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#2. I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are.

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#3. I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

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#4. I was his practice wife, I realize. Adam and I were his practice family. When the story of his life is spun, we will simply be the early threads. We will not be the color.

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#5. 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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#6. A home needs to be filled with love, and some houses--her own, as it had been, included--don't have enough heat in their love to warm them.

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#7. Of course she was bloody found dead." Moore grumbled. "Some bastard cut off her head and her limbs. If she'd been found alive I would have been more than bloody surprised.

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#8. For me, life has always been the storm. The storm and watching from the window for the thing that could stop it, even if my watching was only with my mind's eye locked on the window of my imagination.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. Sometimes,' Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, 'everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while'. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped from her fingertips. 'I like to see it. We all have our dark lusts. We should enjoy them.

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#12. 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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#13. There's no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is." She

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#14. Everyone has secrets, Lou," she says. "Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You'd go mad trying to.

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#15. It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are.

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#16. I guess sometimes you have to hide from the world to see it properly.

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#17. 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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#18. Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel.

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#19. Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks inside that count.

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#20. Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness.

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#21. Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes.

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#22. 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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#23. Sometimes there are just too many words filling up space and not enough emptiness left for thinking. I keep a little emptiness inside for when I need it.

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#24. Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.

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#25. Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely.

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#26. 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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