Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
broader trying
We're trying to tell a broader Frick story than what we tell in Clayton.
amazing god knew outside roaming sort splendid wolf
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!
site tend
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
craft
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
although asking people
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
attainable pipe reckon writers
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.
relevant written
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
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.
human
I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.
house kitchen wander
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.
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.
science
I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
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.
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.