You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering. Sarah Hall More Quotes by Sarah Hall More Quotes From Sarah Hall I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard. Sarah Hall wander kitchen house window For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster. Sarah Hall disaster future society political I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. Sarah Hall books without see political Our lives are politically wound. Sarah Hall lives wound our our-lives You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance. Sarah Hall place look you distance I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum. Sarah Hall write only owl night 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. Sarah Hall myself my-own time way 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. Sarah Hall short story you writing James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for. Sarah Hall talents page sell devil I'm a home-roamer and can't do study or office scenarios. Sarah Hall scenarios study office A lot of my literature deals with these people who are somehow magnetic because they have that ability to step over lines. Sarah Hall step ability literature people 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 place think writing culture My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant. Sarah Hall you agriculture writing country I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs. Sarah Hall better guitar people way I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream. Sarah Hall well start dream writing I have ideas. I hear voices. Words accumulate. It's still an overriding impulse. And I'm self-employed, which means I have to be sensible and motivated about paying the bills. Sarah Hall hear words about ideas The short story is very good at looking at shadow psychologies and how the system breaks down underneath. Sarah Hall looking down good shadow
