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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Sophie Hannah
These are some quotes by British author Sophie Hannah Poet, who was born in 1971.
Quotes by Sophie Hannah
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.
