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 Read Quote
When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop. Sarah Hall Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life. Sarah Hall Read Quote
Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they’re not strict, formulaic things. ‘Coming Through Slaughter’ by Michael Ondaatje was one of them. Sarah Hall Read Quote
Show, don’t tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames. Sarah Hall Read Quote
For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there’s at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. Sarah Hall Read Quote
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board. Sarah Hall Read Quote
It’s been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities – both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept. Sarah Hall Read Quote
