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Sarah Hall Quotes

English - Writer | 1974 -

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

Night Owl Write Five Only Four

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

Political See Without Context Books

Our lives are politically wound.

Our Our Lives Lives Wound

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

You Look Place Distance See Until

I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.

People Comfort Out Off Extreme Like

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

Time Myself Writing I Can Now Way

For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not.

People Border Wolf Two Everything

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.

Creative Writing Story Short You

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

Devil Page Talents Sell Would Souls

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

Office Study Scenarios

A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines.

Step People Literature Over Ability

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.

Child Fighting Remember Kind Up

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