Sophie Hannah Quotes

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.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TogetherPainPeopleMoreOwnKeep

One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.

John Carpenter

LoveMusicGodTodayThinkPowerful

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

Andrew Wyeth

InspirationalMomentFrozenFleeting

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

Mel Martinez

FreedomVoteWillBearRightAlways

Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years. Later in life, when I got out of graduate school and imagined myself living the life of a writer like Hemingway or Kerouac, his practical self inevitably encouraged me to get a steady a job and raise a family, just like he did.

Amor Towles

LifeFamilyMyselfJobSchoolMe

I've always been a sci-fi/fantasy guy. My book reports in school, whenever you didn't have to do it on Shakespeare, I did it on, like, Piers Anthony and Raymond Feist.

Jonathan Hickman

SchoolBookYouAlwaysGuyBeen

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

Johnny Depp

LooksNobodyMoviesOverYearsOut

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

Donna Murphy

FireBaptismLotHad

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Douglas Adams

WorkGoodArtJobPeopleThink

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.

Bruce Davison

I AmBetterInterestingYouLook

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

LifeTelevisionSayWayMy OwnLine

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

Aristotle

BeginningActionEndTragedyMiddle

As soon as someone is coming from New York, I automatically think I have to get dressed up.

Susan Isaacs

New YorkThinkSomeoneDressedNew

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