Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hallis an American mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is a leader in the peer support movement and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement. Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognized internationally as an innovator in the treatment and societal response to psychosis...
james novelists sell souls
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
happened history interested radical women
I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios.
five four hours mornings
I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.
science
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
saw women
I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.
bbc card looked painter portraits terrible
I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
house kitchen wander
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.
immensely later life won
I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
human
I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.
northwest pacific school virginia
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
civil extreme people stripped veneer
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
advertising work
I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
relevant written
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.