Sadie Jones Quotations

My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.

I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.

I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

I love writing on trains. The joy of being a writer is it's all in your head; you don't need materials apart from the laptop. It's like taking your work home with you, so you can feel grounded in your own insane writerly realities wherever you are.