Sophie Hannah Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SeedsStartImpossibleWeirdBody

The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. With 217 years of accrued interest, for a $20 bond, that's about $800,000.

Andrew Tobias

BestWalkBondAmericaDownI Can

In the world where people with money overlap with restaurants and try to work out how to make more money, one of the things they talk about is the desire to find 'the new pizza.' This means a new mass-market product that can be made quickly and eaten both on the premises and as a takeaway.

John Lanchester

WorkMoneyPizzaPeopleWorldFind

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

Michael Gove

LifePeopleStoryLife StoryWant

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

John Tillotson

GreatMindArgumentBearReason

I like my home to be somewhere where my friends can feel like they can put their feet up on the couch and for it to feel like really easy living. I really love to have my friends over, cook dinner for them, catch up, and spend quality time with quality people in my life.

Stacy Keibler

LifeLoveHomeTimeQualityPeople

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

Mary Quant

PassionEatingOutdoorsParticular

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Luke Mably

MusicMirrorVampireHeavy Metal

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

FreedomMeFindImportantImagine

As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Christina Hendricks

WorkSayingSmokeLuckyMoreThings

The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.

Alicia Garza

OrganizationBlackMatterMovement

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

Shahid Kapoor

BodyActorHighCannotBuilder

A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

Tina Yothers

GoodFunPeopleMeVoiceSpeak

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