I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world.… — Sophie Hannah Cia Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick… — Sophie Hannah About Copy Share Image
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The… — Sophie Hannah Back Copy Share Image
“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… — Sophie Hannah Inner voice Copy Share Image
“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at… — Sophie Hannah Books Copy Share Image
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. — Sophie Hannah Drive Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would… — Sophie Hannah About Copy Share Image
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and… — Sophie Hannah Because Copy Share Image
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if… — Sophie Hannah Able 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 Ask 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 Big Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Childhood Copy Share Image
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it… — Sophie Hannah Encounters Copy Share Image
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:… — Sophie Hannah Accident Copy Share Image
When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided… — Sophie Hannah Anyone Copy Share Image
“No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. It's the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a 'Let's find out who the murderer is', which… — Sophie Hannah Always Copy Share Image
“Anyone who cares more about pleasing other people than about their own happiness—anyone who believes, deep down, that everyone else matters more… — Sophie Hannah Young age Copy Share Image
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new… — Sophie Hannah Any Copy Share Image
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer. — Sophie Hannah Because Copy Share Image
“No, thanks,’ said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.” — Sophie Hannah Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Simon would disapprove, in the way that people who lacked life experience always disapproved of others having adventures they had so far… — Sophie Hannah Life Copy Share Image
“If you ask for a memory and they tell you a story, they're lying” — Sophie Hannah Lying Copy Share Image
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for… — Sophie Hannah Books Copy Share Image
