The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
“That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at him, and… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share
