Top 71 Quotes by Sarah Hall

In my early 20s, connecting with fiction was a difficult process. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason to what was meaningful, what convinced, and what made sense.

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

Writers cannot simply have a go, imagining it's easier to produce a story than a novel because fewer words are required. Have a go by all means; be intrepid, but be equipped.

Quite a lot is required of writers these days in terms of, if not promoting the work, then being a representative of the work. It's a difficult thing, really.

I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.

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

There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.

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

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

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