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Sarah Hall quotes: You've been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you. You've been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.
Sarah Hall quotes: I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.
Sarah Hall quotes: 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. 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.
Sarah Hall quotes: Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose. Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose.
Sarah Hall quotes: Life is not straightforward: relationships bifurcate; there is nothing more complicated, more confounding, than love. Life is not straightforward: relationships bifurcate; there is nothing more complicated, more confounding, than love.
Sarah Hall quotes: James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for. James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.
Sarah Hall quotes: People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience. People were made up of shit and piss and phlegm and bits and pieces of experience.
Sarah Hall quotes: A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island. A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.
Sarah Hall quotes: I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work. I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
Sarah Hall quotes: Over the coun-ter, she might let you mount-her, but in the morning, there'll be no more whoring, as its off to the doc-ter for warts of your cock-ter Over the coun-ter, she might let you mount-her, but in the morning, there'll be no more whoring, as its off to the doc-ter for warts of your cock-ter
Sarah Hall quotes: You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance. You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.
Sarah Hall quotes: You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone. You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.
Sarah Hall quotes: Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers. Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
Sarah Hall quotes: I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios.
Sarah Hall quotes: I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you. I said, it's strange, each time I see you again. You look different. Altered. You're not like I remember. I have to get used to you.
Sarah Hall quotes: 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. 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.
Sarah Hall quotes: I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown. I was a terrible painter - my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.
Sarah Hall quotes: I think you can tell any human story in a particular place. I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.
Sarah Hall quotes: My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am. My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
Sarah Hall quotes: Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood. Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
Sarah Hall quotes: The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath. The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath.
Sarah Hall quotes: The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.
Sarah Hall quotes: Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments. Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.
Sarah Hall quotes: There is always half a truth in cliche. There is always half a truth in cliche.
Sarah Hall quotes: Life conspires to plant us in the funniest of gardens where the trees need an especial form of tending Life conspires to plant us in the funniest of gardens where the trees need an especial form of tending
Sarah Hall quotes: That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple. That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple.
Sarah Hall quotes: This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography. This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.
Sarah Hall quotes: The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared. The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.
Sarah Hall quotes: Prescient experts of biological codes. Prescient experts of biological codes.
Sarah Hall quotes: I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum. I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.
Sarah Hall quotes: When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop. When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
Sarah Hall quotes: A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.
Sarah Hall quotes: For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
Sarah Hall quotes: 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. 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.
Sarah Hall quotes: Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted. Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
Sarah Hall quotes: Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form. Language description and metaphors seem readily available. The things I have to work harder at are plot, pacing, and form.
Sarah Hall quotes: I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s. I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.
Sarah Hall quotes: The two of you are different now, calmer. There is still sex, occasionally, but is no longer a priority to seduce or be seduced by him. The two of you are different now, calmer. There is still sex, occasionally, but is no longer a priority to seduce or be seduced by him.
Sarah Hall quotes: Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power. Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
Sarah Hall quotes: I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life. I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
Sarah Hall quotes: It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through. It's taken me 15 years to feel I might be able to write and publish short stories, and for the assiduous checks of the industry to allow some through.
Sarah Hall quotes: Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed. Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.
Sarah Hall quotes: Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.
Sarah Hall quotes: There are men who make the world seem populated by good men, those who are intuitive, or have been taught. There are men who make the world seem populated by good men, those who are intuitive, or have been taught.
Sarah Hall quotes: I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist. I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.
Sarah Hall quotes: One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.
Sarah Hall quotes: Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy. Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.
Sarah Hall quotes: There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating. There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
Sarah Hall quotes: I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
Sarah Hall quotes: I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women. I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.
Sarah Hall quotes: People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life. People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.
Sarah Hall quotes: I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back. I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
Sarah Hall quotes: I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off. I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
Sarah Hall quotes: You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work. You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work.
Sarah Hall quotes: Our lives are politically wound. Our lives are politically wound.

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