My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.
From Sarah Hall
It's been noted that writing about the production of art is a masquerade or metaphor for writing about writing. This may be true, there are similarities - both the verbal and the visual represent the thing or the concept.
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!
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.
Our lives are politically wound.
You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
I write in the mornings or afternoons - I'm not a night owl and can write for only four or five hours maximum.
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