Sophie Hannah Quotes

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as writers rather than ghettoised as crime writers, but I love being thought of firmly as a crime writer.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1971

Topics

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

MotivationalLifeDesignPlanYou

The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Jeremy Paxman

BirdEarlyCheeseEarly BirdMay

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Jenny Lewis

BabyWantSingLikeBabiesFront

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

Maurice Sendak

ChildrenMeThinkBetterYouWrite

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

BusinessDecisionRestaurantYouBad

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

Tom Jones

PeopleMeVoiceLongI CanWant

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleInterestingFlatteryAlways

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Roy Moore

GodDutyObeyMust

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

Mohsin Hamid

SelfEasyPrettyImagineSenseYour

I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.

Louis Theroux

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I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award.

Denis Leary

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Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq.

Christine Gregoire

AppreciationFreeFightingElection

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