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...
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.
james novelists sell souls
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
ammunition apparently aspect battle concerned jobs lone lost mind people star team together
We apparently have lost 357 jobs and that is 357 disasters, ... We need to keep our team together and go to battle for those people and find something for them. They are on my mind more than any aspect of this ... I am concerned about Lone Star (Army Ammunition Plant).