113 Quotes by Sarah Hall

My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.

The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.

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!

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

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

I am a feminist, although I always worry saying that because you then get people asking you about the 1970s.