Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
civil extreme people stripped veneer
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
advertising work
I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
relevant written
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
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.
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.
although asking people
I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
few novelists
Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
craft
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
fear power relative
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
site tend
Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
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.
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!
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.
work
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.