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Sarah Hall
English
Writer
Born:
1974
About
People
Think
Work
Writing
You
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There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
Sarah Hall
Words
Enjoy
Characters
Seemed
Bland
Within
Lot
Very
Did
Lacking
Fiction
Them
Landscapes
Whose
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.
Sarah Hall
Every
Virtue
At Least One
About
Writer
Idea
Makes
Least
Contrary
Craft
Fiction
Who
Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.
Sarah Hall
Personality
Made
Master
Late
Say
Daniel
Rather
Prose
Name
Traditional
Mode
Form
Storytelling
Might
Descriptive
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
Evil
Clown
Picasso
Like
Looked
Terrible
Test
Painter
Card
Portraits
Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.
Sarah Hall
Fear
Power
Relative
Effects
Thing
It's very interesting to me that the nationalist movement in Scotland has become so positive and self-reflective rather than anti-English. The referendum in 2014 was peaceful, for all its deeply and passionately divided people.
Sarah Hall
Positive
Me
People
Become
Rather
Divided
Passionately
Referendum
Very
Scotland
Than
Nationalist
Movement
Interesting
Peaceful
Deeply
Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.
Sarah Hall
Good
Few
Cascade
Only
Area
Could
Environment
Terms
Mostly
Wolves
Very
Scotland
Predators
Sustain
Realistically
Apex
Biodiversity
Britain
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
Work
Hope
You
Somebody
Something
Perfect
Could
Write
Reader
Always
Surprise
Human
Anyone
Appealing
There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
Sarah Hall
You
Dark
Nothing
Atlantic
Vast
Mortality
Remind
Like
Also
Terror
Exhilarating
Your
I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
Sarah Hall
Life
Later
Immensely
Only
Over
Won
Child
Dislike
Used
I was the feral, mud-bathing, tree-climbing variety of child. Why would I want to read about pirates when I could build a raft and terrorise sheep along the riverbanks?
Sarah Hall
Sheep
Build
Would
About
Variety
Could
Along
Read
Child
Pirates
Want
Raft
Why
Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.
Sarah Hall
Daily
Entertainment
Wonderful
Characters
Possibly
Inspiration
Through
Over
Around
Fiction
Strangeness
Rotate
Even
Daily Basis
Competing
Basis
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!
Sarah Hall
God
You
Dog
Amazing
Wolf
Incredible
Sumptuous
Kid
Sight
Find
Splendid
Outside
Knew
Roaming
Like
Sort
Around
Were
Going
Them
Creatures
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