Another Quote by Sophie Hannah Download Open image “When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.” — Sophie Hannah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Another Copy Doomed Fail Tries Writer Writing
“Writers who don’t produce copy—or leave it so long that they couldn’t possibly produce something good—are giving themselves the perfect excuse for not succeeding.” — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to… — Gabrielle Reece Copy Share Image
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans Copy Share Image
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.” — Gerard de Marigny Copy Share Image
We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind. — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
“A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we’re incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover… — Austin Kleon 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 Image
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 Image
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 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 never needed… — Sophie Hannah 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 him, and… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. — Sophie Hannah 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 be important… — Sophie Hannah 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 hang-ups. — Sophie Hannah 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 I'm talking… — 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 writer. — 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 in chapters… — Sophie Hannah 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 Copy Share Image
I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job. — Owen Farrell Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I have to mention that Taapsee and Ayushmann are my favorite actors - or stars, whatever you call them. I love them. Our thought… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on… — Diplo Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown. — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good… — Sarah Steelman Copy Share Image
In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,… — Martin Van Creveld Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another. — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
