Sarah Hall
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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.
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.
amount certain hard listening maturity mean nerve short simply stories work
Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.
harder metaphors readily work
Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
advertising work
I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
work
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
hope human reader somebody surprise work
You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.
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.
connecting early fiction reason rhyme seemed
In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.
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.
michael novels various
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.