Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
felt people pick playing
I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.
design people
We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.
asked explain label people reader work
You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
complete interested people whether wolf
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.
civil extreme people stripped veneer
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
life novels people power tie
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
although asking people
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
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.
adventure great learned met people wonderful
I can say its been an adventure so far. Weve learned a lot and met some wonderful people and made some great contacts.
people tears pouring
People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
breaks good looking system
The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
bland characters fiction lacking landscapes seemed whose
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.
promoting quite required terms work writers
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.
best library special
The Special Collections Library is the best we have. They have such fascinating things in there.