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Sophie Hannah

I want my books to explore motives which make people think, 'Wow! Imagine the psychological state you'd have to be in for that to be your motive!' Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - they're rational reasons for committing murder.
— Sophie Hannah books
I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.
— Sophie Hannah relationships
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 women
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
— Sophie Hannah fiction
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 magic
Only Agatha Christie can write like Agatha Christie.
— Sophie Hannah write
Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
— Sophie Hannah people
I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds University, and we lived in Yorkshire for 11 years. When he gave up his job, we realised we could live wherever we liked.
— Sophie Hannah live
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 think I do understand individual human harmfulness.
— Sophie Hannah world
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
— Sophie Hannah war
My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.
— Sophie Hannah art
My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
— Sophie Hannah love
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
— Sophie Hannah writers
The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you could be getting on with, like the ironing or sorting out the children. My mind goes into free-float mode; some of the best ideas for plots come into my head while I'm ploughing up and down the pool.
— Sophie Hannah children
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
— Sophie Hannah writing
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.
— Sophie Hannah poetry
I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.
— Sophie Hannah love
I'm not cut out to lug babies around!
— Sophie Hannah
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 war
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 people
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 people
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 novel
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.
— Sophie Hannah art
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.
— Sophie Hannah writer
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 life
I want my books to explore motives which make people think, Wow! Imagine the psychological state youd have to be in for that to be your motive! Whereas things like blackmail, jealousy - theyre rational reasons for committing murder.
— Sophie Hannah books

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