English - Writer | 1974 -
I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.
Sarah Hall
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There's nothing like the vast, dark Atlantic to remind you of your mortality. But terror can also be exhilarating.
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Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.
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I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.
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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?
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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.
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When I moved back to Cumbria, one of the first things I did was locate a decent bookshop.
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Revisiting much-loved childhood novels is never easy.
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You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.
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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!
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I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.
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