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I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author.
— 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 The Library.'
— Sophie Hannah
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
— Sophie Hannah
It is hate that makes people kill, Mr Catchpool, not love. Never love. Please be rational.
— Sophie Hannah
Life punishes the needy; admit you can't live without something and it's taken away.
— Sophie Hannah
We cannot help how we feel, but we can choose whether or not to act upon those feelings.
— Sophie Hannah
I know better than anyone that sometimes a possibility is enough to keep a person going, even if it never becomes a reality.
— Sophie Hannah
You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
— Sophie Hannah
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.
— Sophie Hannah
In my opinion, a superior mind counts for nothing unless accompanied by a superior heart.
— Sophie Hannah
Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,
— Sophie Hannah
I thought to myself, 'No matter what happens from now on, even if my heart ends up in pieces, this makes it all worth it, this moment.
— Sophie Hannah
No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. It's the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she.
— Sophie Hannah
Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic.
— 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 to learn.
— Sophie Hannah
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.
— Sophie Hannah
Wall of lies?' Proust muttered. 'Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?
— Sophie Hannah
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
— 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
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
— Sophie Hannah
She'd buy diamond-studded earplugs and go and lie on a beach in the Caribbean where the whining of jealous bastards wouldn't reach her.
— Sophie Hannah
Too much self-esteem, thought Simon: the real curse of our age.
— 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
What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.
— Sophie Hannah
Sophie was too old for lies and too young for the truth.
— Kristin Hannah
It's funny that sometimes you can only describe something with perfect accuracy by being wildly inaccurate.
— Sophie Hannah
I'm not cut out to lug babies around!
— Sophie Hannah
My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.
— Sophie Hannah
A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'
— Sophie Hannah
He wondered how many new starts a person was entitled to, how many times one could say it was the other person's fault and truly believe it.
— Sophie Hannah
Poirot smoothed his mustache, as if he imagined that laughing might have shaken it out of shape.
— Sophie Hannah
I'm low-level angry most of the time, never really know why,' Simon told him. 'You got the brunt of it. This time.
— Sophie Hannah
Why treat the people closest to you like strangers?
— Sophie Hannah
Oh, God. I can't do this. I only slightly want to have a baby. I think. I actually don't know at all.
— Sophie Hannah
Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?
— Sophie Hannah
She was irritated, briefly, by the thought that she might be becoming more mature. Why should she become a better person when no one else did?
— Sophie Hannah
Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
— Sophie Hannah
Most people seemed to think stable equalled happy.
— Sophie Hannah
If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.
— Sophie Hannah
We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.
— Sophie Hannah
Sometimes a gentle perambulation causes a new idea to rise to the surface of one's thoughts.
— Sophie Hannah
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
— Sophie Hannah
What you cannot imagine, you cannot fear.
— Sophie Hannah
Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.
— Sophie Hannah
When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.
— Sophie Hannah
make decisions based on hope, not fear.
— Sophie Hannah
Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
— Sophie Hannah
I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.
— Sophie Hannah
No, thanks,' said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.
— 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 three and 11.
— Sophie Hannah