Sophie Hannah Quotes

Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingHerBecauseBooksPuzzling

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, 'Well, he's stuck-up.' 'Stuck-up' is only another word for self-conscious.

Johnny Carson

PeopleYouBackSometimesSayWell

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Meryl Streep

MenWorldFeelLookWrongSomething

I had a friend who, after 25 years of marriage, found himself trying to date again, and it was completely different. Everything had changed, and he had to reacquaint himself. It was funny even talking to him about it. For someone who has been out of the loop, it's a different world.

Steve Carell

FunnyFriendMarriageWorldTalking

Mind over mattress.

Stephen Covey

MindOverMattress

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.

Simon Toyne

GoodWritingYouTelevisionPilot

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.

Mike D

TimeWorldPoliticalBecauseMade

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Louise Erdrich

LovePushGoSideAwayGo Away

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Jonathan Kozol

PeopleCityBookThoughtGoKnow

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

Denise Juneau

LiveCommunityChildrenSchoolTreat

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

Christina Baker Kline

WeekRelentlessDaysRadiationFive

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

Cornelia Funke

WillTryDeadWriteDropBooks

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

Penn Jillette

MoneyCompassionBullyingYourself

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