Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
craft
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
fear power relative
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
site tend
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
ability deals literature magnetic people somehow step
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
amazing god knew outside roaming sort splendid wolf
When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god!
beauty conversation mode
The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
work
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
art both masquerade metaphor noted production represent verbal
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
daniel form might prose rather
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
aware begin ecosystem healthy modern science understand
I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.
deeply divided positive rather referendum scotland
It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people.
acts clear enjoying experience
Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.
british cold
Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
aesthetic art educated interested refinement tastes terms
They were not just interested in refinement in terms of aesthetic tastes and art collecting, but also refinement in the way that they educated the children.