Words matter. These are the best Steven Hall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Longhand isn’t well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it’s easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can’t decide.
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
I’m a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.
I’m excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to ‘see’ the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn’t it? What’s worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you’ve had some beer.
I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don’t want to forget. I tend to grab whatever’s to hand and just get the thing down before it’s lost. It’s not what you would call a streamlined system.
Twitter is incredibly useful. It’s a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.
I don’t listen to Nirvana plugged anymore. I think there’s a whole group of people who have semi-forgotten that Nirvana used electric guitars because of the ‘Unplugged’ album. It’s so great.
When I’m out and about, I’ll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
I’d love a signed first edition of ‘City of Glass’ by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I’m on top of things.
