Air Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sophie Hannah

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

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Sophie Hannah

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

— Sophie Hannah