Sarah Will
Sarah Will
Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medalswhile competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. Will serves as a ski instructor and is otherwise active in the Vail community. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is a nominee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame...
flower heart rose
It is a rose planted in your heart, and as it's thorns tear you, so does it thrive and flower
stories monkeys paws
The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
stories earth matter
What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
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.