The Big Idea: Teri Hall  Everyone asks questions – but are they
asking the right questions? Author Teri Hall is asking herself
(and us) this particular question, especially in the context of
her debut YA novel The Line, in which certain questions (and
whether they’re asked at all) take on a critical importance.
Here’s Hall, to explain the questions, and to speculate on why
the answers matter.   The Line is a dystopia, set in the near
future.  I got the notion for the novel while I was
sleeping—yes, that’s right—I had a dream. (Take a moment to
groan in disgust if you hate it when writers say that.)  It was
just a scene really—a scene where a young girl was sitting in
the corner of a room, a room where all the walls were made of
glass.  It was night, and there was a rain storm, the kind where
the rain is coming down so hard that it cascades down the glass
in sheets, and makes everything outside look wavery and vague. 
The girl was looking out into the night, trying to see, but the
rain and the dark made it imp