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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. Sarah Hall Read Quote
James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for. Sarah Hall Read Quote
