Sophie Hannah Quotes

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StartBookReadingMysteryWantWhy

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

Siobhan Davies

DanceIdeasWorldSmallIntense

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

Slash

Rock And RollGuitarKnowRockLead

America doesn't like to hear about things like welfare. 'Don't talk about that. We don't like what it did to people!' Yeah, but it happened.

Tracy Morgan

PeopleAmericaTalkWelfareThings

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Ruth Benedict

StrengthLiveMyselfWorldTwo

'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the story kind of come out of this massive historical phenomenon. And the more I researched the '20s, the more I discovered just how interesting it was.

Michael Pitt

DayStartStoryThinkInteresting

I never watched any award show.

Lukas Forchhammer

AwardNeverShowWatchedAny

I don't like to get too caught up in habits because too much structure can stifle creativity. But there are a few habits that make us more productive and are healthy to work into every workweek, if not every day. I love to start the day with a workout - even just a run on the treadmill while catching up on the morning headlines.

Dinesh Paliwal

WorkLoveMorningDayCreativity

Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.

Derek Walcott

CityWorldHeavenNewBecause

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.

Drew Brees

ChangeI CanNewWayOldOver

I have no detectable hair style.

David Spade

StyleHair

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

Chord Overstreet

MusicGreatOpinionPraiseHimGet

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

Clotilde Hesme

DayOverExhaustionMentalFatigue

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