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> [My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/my-favourite-friday-treat-is-to-drive-out-of-the-centre-of-cambridge/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

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## More by Sophie Hannah

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/i-never-write-about-cia-conspiracies-or-the-fbi-or-mafia-or-anything/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/i-am-trying-to-write-novels-for-properly-clever-people-but-i-also/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/my-father-whose-hobby-was-collecting-secondhand-cricket-books-came/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/that-s-not-me-talking-it-s-your-inner-voice-i-d-attempt-the-accent/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/what-they-d-got-was-a-fat-balding-academic-who-bandied-about-the/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/in-west-yorkshire-i-d-have-to-drive-three-quarters-of-an-hour-to-go/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/no-highbrow-literary-type-would-ever-say-moby-dick-is-good-but-it-s/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/there-are-very-few-well-adjusted-people-in-my-books-but-i-do-think/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/with-me-even-if-my-life-depended-on-it-i-wouldn-t-be-able-to-cry-not/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/if-you-ask-people-if-they-enjoy-crime-novels-they-ll-say-oh-my-guilty/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/in-a-crime-novel-if-you-are-going-to-have-a-big-revelation-in-chapter/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/all-through-childhood-i-wrote-verses-and-mysteries-there-is-for-me/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/i-always-notice-the-dysfunctional-dynamic-of-human-relationships/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [I'm not cut out to lug babies around!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/i-m-not-cut-out-to-lug-babies-around/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-hannah/some-writers-i-m-told-look-for-their-characters-surnames-in-telephone/)

[Sophie Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-hannah/)

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