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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.
- Sarah Hall
#Hope
#Human
#Perfect
#Surprise
#Work
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
- Sarah Hall
#Books
#Context
#Political
#See
#Without
Nightmares of a capital city overwhelmed by tsunami, war or plague transfix us, but catastrophe is first felt locally, and there are many homes outside the city.
- Sarah Hall
#City
#Overwhelmed
#Plague
#Us
#War
I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios.
- Sarah Hall
#Office
#Scenarios
#Study
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
- Sarah Hall
#Ability
#Lines
#Literature
#People
#Step
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
- Sarah Hall
#Craft
#Every
#Fiction
#Who
#Writer
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.
- Sarah Hall
#Black
#End
#Pool
#Surrounded
#Valley
Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
- Sarah Hall
#Autumn
#British
#Cold
#Dark
#Swimming
Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.
- Sarah Hall
#Biodiversity
#Environment
#Good
#Wolves
I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?
- Sarah Hall
#Build
#Child
#Sheep
#Want
#Why
My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.
- Sarah Hall
#Agriculture
#Country
#Did
#Places
#Rural
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.
- Sarah Hall
#Days
#Difficult
#Representative
#Work
Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.
- Sarah Hall
#Advice
#Avoid
#Broken
#Character
#World
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
- Sarah Hall
#Late
#Name
#Personality
#Storytelling
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
- Sarah Hall
#Effects
#Fear
#Power
#Relative
#Thing
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.
- Sarah Hall
#Back
#Birthday
#Parents
#Three
#Yourself
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.
- Sarah Hall
#Design
#Go
#Me
#People
#Some People
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