Will Hall
Will Hall
Will Hallis an American mental health advocate, counselor, writer, and teacher. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, he is a leader in the peer support movement and is an organizer within the psychiatric survivors movement. Hall advocates the recovery approach to mental illness and is recognized internationally as an innovator in the treatment and societal response to psychosis...
teacher children effort
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
peculiar intimate muscles
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
queens thinking mathematics
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking...
birth born adolescence
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
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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!
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.
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I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.