British - Poet | 1971 -
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
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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.
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When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.
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Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.
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If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.
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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 if she wasn't just writing about romantic relationships.
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Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.
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The crimes in my books are committed by people who can't keep it together any more. They do something to express their own pain, and that has a terrible effect on somebody else.
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Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.
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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.
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