"Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough……" — Sophie Hannah
"Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention."
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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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I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter…
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Reading is the only area of my life in which I prefer to be non-autonomous.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet…
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families.…
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and…
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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