Sharon Bolton Quotes

If you have to choose between terrible grief and terrible guilt, I think grief is easier, in the end.

— Sharon Bolton

“But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day it consumes you whole.”

— Sharon Bolton

“Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.”

— Sharon Bolton

“I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.”

— Sharon Bolton

“I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.”

— Sharon Bolton

“My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.”

— Sharon Bolton

“On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.”

— Sharon Bolton

“Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.”

— Sharon Bolton

“Crime writers adore islands. We love the sense of being trapped within a community apart, where normal codes of behavior, if not ignored, can be allowed to slip.”

— Sharon Bolton

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.

— Sharon Bolton

“'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.”

— Sharon Bolton