English - Writer | 1974 -
I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.
Sarah Hall
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I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.
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I've always been interested in the history of radical feminism - what happened to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
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I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.
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I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.
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Quite a lot is required of writers these days in terms of, if not promoting the work, then being a representative of the work. It's a difficult thing, really.
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It's a lovely feeling, just working away at the desk, putting words down, building words up... I think you have to be aware that what you're doing is not just a private act, it's a societal thing.
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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.
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Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.
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Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.
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In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.
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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.
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