Best quotes by Sophie Hannah on Crime

Checkout quotes by Sophie Hannah on Crime

• ‟ Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.

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• ‟ Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong autobiographical elements in each.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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?'

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• ‟ Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

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• ‟ When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

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• ‟ In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

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