Quotes About Sarah Hall

You always hope you'll surprise somebody with the work. If you write something human and appealing, the perfect reader could be anyone.

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

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

I tend to research as I write so that the narrative can take priority, which is important for a piece of fiction, I think, finding out facts as and when I need to.

My mother had this phrase. You've heard me say it in the spring whenever it's too warm. These are borrowed days. And they'll have to be paid back later in the year. I think that's what we've had up here.

Various books revolutionised what I think about novels and showed me that they're not strict, formulaic things. 'Coming Through Slaughter' by Michael Ondaatje was one of them.