Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
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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.
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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.
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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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Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
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I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
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My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
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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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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.
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Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.
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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.
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We're trying to tell a broader Frick story than what we tell in Clayton.
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I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills.
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I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.
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My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.