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" 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. "
Sarah Hall
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" For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. "
Sarah Hall
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" I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. "
Sarah Hall
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" I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. "
Sarah Hall
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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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" 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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" It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept. "
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" I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to. "
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Research
Need
" 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. "
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" I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground. "
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Kind
" I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women. "
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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. "
Sarah Hall
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Waterfall
Lake
" Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. "
Sarah Hall
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Site
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" I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s. "
Sarah Hall
Always
Women
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" Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties. "
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Need
Think
Writing
" I've always been interested in wolves, since I was a child. There was a wolf enclosure in a wildlife park very close to where I was brought up; they were the main attraction. "
Sarah Hall
Child
Always
Wildlife
" I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. "
Sarah Hall
Window
Bed
House
" The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared. "
Sarah Hall
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" There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating. "
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" I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist. "
Sarah Hall
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Science
Going
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Enjoy
Landscapes
Whose
" When you are a kid, a wolf is an amazing sight, so sumptuous. I sort of knew these were splendid creatures, that I was not going to find them outside roaming around. It was like a dog, but not a dog. It was incredible, a god! "
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You
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" 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. "
Sarah Hall
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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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Hope
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" It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. "
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Years
" I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum. "
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" When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop. "
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" 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. "
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" Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
Sarah Hall
Work
Difficult
Days