"Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that…" — Sophie Hannah
"Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know."
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18 Quotes by Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah has 18 quotes on this site.
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We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
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But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.
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Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic…
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I never do enjoy my breaks, long or short...I look forward to them intensely, but as soon as they begin,…
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Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and…
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You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
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Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
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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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Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round,…
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I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and…
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Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that…
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I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter…
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More Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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