Quotes from Sarah Hall

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.

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

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.

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