Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
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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.
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You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.
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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.
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It's a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up... I think you have to be aware that what you're doing is not just a private act, it's a societal thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
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Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.
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Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
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Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
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James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
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I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.