Quotes from Sophie Hannah

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.

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.