Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
heart past night
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.
children law layers
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.
solitude misunderstood conditions
Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
kissing suffering firsts
You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.
wonder moments lost
You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
broader trying
We're trying to tell a broader Frick story than what we tell in Clayton.
beauty conversation mode
The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
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!
ability deals literature magnetic people somehow step
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
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.
life novels people power tie
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.
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.