Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones
Sadie Jonesis an English writer and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
anybody great picturing reader table trying
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.
branches bulbs business dead feeling frozen nature ourselves perhaps pull recognize relating
We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.
buying kids left spend time
When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.
author favourite sure writes
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.
distracted finally flooded left mind sort tips undone until weight
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.
experience life
I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.
certain extreme human people perhaps psyche separate
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.
add change environment pictures
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.
good
You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
best garden moment shed starts
I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
holidays hot remember spent weight
My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.
attach certain
I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.