Author: Sarah Pinborough

Quotes

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.

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.

- Sarah Pinborough

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.

- Sarah Pinborough

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

Never trust a narrator whose opening gambit is to insist he's not mad.

- Sarah Pinborough

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.

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.

- Sarah Pinborough

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.

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.

- Sarah Pinborough

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.

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.

- Sarah Pinborough

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.

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.

- Sarah Pinborough

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

It would appear that I just love writing many different stories.

- Sarah Pinborough

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