Writer Quotes by Sophie Hannah

11 Writer quotes by Sophie Hannah

Hannah’s background in poetry informs her thoughts on prose, emphasizing rhythm and precision. These eleven lines provide a quick taste of how she navigates language to shape narrative.

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Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

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Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.

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Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

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When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

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If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime…

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I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick…

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When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or…

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I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought…

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What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when…

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My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The…

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“When an author took the time and trouble to choose exactly the right words and arrange them in the right order, there…

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In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters…

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All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

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I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isnt happening.

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