113 Quotes by Sarah Hall

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

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.

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

I don't think practitioners should necessarily be advertising their work.

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

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.

I think you can tell any human story in a particular place.

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.