39 Sarah Hall Quotes for You to Enjoy

Sarah Hall

English Writer

Born: 1974

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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine

I've always been interested in wolves, since I was a child. There was a wolf enclosure in a wildlife park very close to where I was brought up; they were the main attraction. Sarah Hall

Wolf Wildlife Brought Park Main Since Attraction Always Were Been Wolves Up Very Close Child Where Interested

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing. Sarah Hall

Me People Some People Wolf Design Birds Our Pleasing Some About Something Aesthetically Go Just Just Something Preferences Really

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted. Sarah Hall

Dark Autumn Swimming Cold British

You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house. Sarah Hall

Birthday You Yourself Three Parents Closed Think Back Wildlife Would Only Small Park House Parties Became Because Go Hamlet Wolves Up Very Interested Little Ask Miles Growing Growing Up Now Why Near

Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required. Sarah Hall

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere. Sarah Hall

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground. Sarah Hall

Remember Girl Fighting Else Kind Brought Mesmerized Up Than North Child Being Which Anywhere Anywhere Else England Playground

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. Sarah Hall

Political Books Relevant See Written Without Context Ambitious

Our lives are politically wound. Sarah Hall

Our Our Lives Wound Politically Lives

You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance. Sarah Hall

You Distance See Look Until Place

I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first. Sarah Hall

You Creative Writing First Sense Write Generally Studied Part Course Off Short Want Stories Short Stories Short Story Story Then Even Novel Creative Writing Novelist Need Set University

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for. Sarah Hall

Devil Would Talents Souls Sell James Page Novelists

I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. Sarah Hall

Scenarios Study Office

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am. Sarah Hall

Work Me Extraordinary More Am Than Want Far

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist. Sarah Hall

Science Never Going Useless

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women. Sarah Hall

Women Saw Brought Up Where Fierce Agricultural

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