Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
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I've always been interested in wolves, since I was a child. There was a wolf enclosure in a wildlife park very close to where I was brought up; they were the main attraction.
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For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not.
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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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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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I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
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The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
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There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
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Quite a lot is required of writers these days in terms of, if not promoting the work, then being a representative of the work. It's a difficult thing, really.
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The Special Collections Library is the best we have. They have such fascinating things in there.
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Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.
atlantic terror
There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
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You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.
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I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
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I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.