Sharon Bolton Quotes
On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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Weapons are less harmful than words.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God
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On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
