Sarah Pinborough Quotes & Sayings

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. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

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

Something is building, bubbling in my stomach, flaring into white heat, and I don't know if it will explode out of me in anxiety or whether it will meet with the dark spots at the edge of my vision and push me out to pass out. I want it to come out in words that I don't have. I want it to make sense. To not just be mine. And then just when I am about to combust, it appears in the night. Out of nowhere. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

They want to make me feel better about dying. To make me feel better about dying gives them a purpose." You pause. "But I'm fine about dying. And they just can't accept that. It takes away their purpose." You sip your tea and flinch. "And I'm buggered if I'm going to waste what's left of my time pretending to be terrified just to fit into someone else's picture of how things should be. I'd rather watch reruns of Dalziel and Pascoe on UK Gold. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

Found dead. A verdict as useful as a fucking Bible in the Bluegate Brothel. — Sarah Pinborough

I think about that lost dignity you must be feeling and I want to tell you it doesn't matter. Not in the great scheme of things. This is just the end. It isn't the everything of you. And it's the everything we'll remember when the memory of this fades. xxx
I can't explain this though. The words are tangled on my tongue and I'm not sure they would make a difference. Becuase I guess for you the everything is done and there is only the now. And in the now your loss of dignity is everything. — Sarah Pinborough

If you thought about it hard enough, you could be scared of everything. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

I guess sometimes you have to hide from the world to see it properly. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

I've seen a range of children's personalities, so it's easier to write about them without patronising them, I think. — Sarah Pinborough

There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our mouths. It finds us whether we are sick or healthy. It is a secret hushed thing that lives in the whisper of the nurses' skirts as they rustle up and down our stairs. They've taught me to face the language one syllable at a time, slowing creating an unwilling meaning. — Sarah Pinborough

There's no right and wrong with feelings. There is only what there is." She — Sarah Pinborough

It's strange how different we all appear to who we really are. — Sarah Pinborough

Dark and light. Horror and beauty. Everything is extremes. — Sarah Pinborough

Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching. — Sarah Pinborough

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. — Sarah Pinborough