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" I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off. "
Sarah Hall
Extreme
Out
People
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" Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. "
Sarah Hall
Often
Site
Urban
" Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy. "
Sarah Hall
Easy
Never
Childhood
" 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
Master
Personality
Late
" I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist. "
Sarah Hall
Useless
Science
Going
" I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown. "
Sarah Hall
Card
Evil
Clown
" 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
History
" 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
Writing
Sound
Character
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Science
Understand
Healthy
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Always
Explain
Try
" I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. "
Sarah Hall
Window
Bed
House
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Process
Early
Sense
" It's a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up... I think you have to be aware that what you're doing is not just a private act, it's a societal thing. "
Sarah Hall
Think
You
Words
" I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work. "
Sarah Hall
Should
Work
Think
" I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. "
Sarah Hall
Writing
You
Story
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Short
Me
Years
" 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
Better
Way
Some People
" 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. "
Sarah Hall
Virginia
School
American
" A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. "
Sarah Hall
Over
Step
People
" 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! "
Sarah Hall
You
Wolf
Dog
" One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture. "
Sarah Hall
Try
Writing
Think
" I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. "
Sarah Hall
Study
Scenarios
Office
" 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
Wolves
Environment
Good
" Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. "
Sarah Hall
Language
Things
Work
" For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not. "
Sarah Hall
Everything
Wolf
Two
" James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for. "
Sarah Hall
Talents
Would
Souls
" Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board. "
Sarah Hall
Head
Student
School
" I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. "
Sarah Hall
Books
See
Without
" The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath. "
Sarah Hall
How
Looking
Short
" I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream. "
Sarah Hall
Writing
Dream
Who
" 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
Power
Think
Always