Quotes by Paula Hawkins - Page 1

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
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Tragedy
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I'm not romantic, and I don't like Christmas.
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Christmas
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Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.
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Invisible
Women Age Men
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I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
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Output
Literary
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I spent a lot of time writing about tax and pensions and mortgages.
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Mortgages
Pensions
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One of the lovely things about writing when nobody knows who you are is there's no expectation.
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Lovely
Expectation
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I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
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Broke
Dice
Writer
Fiction Writer
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When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.
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Crime
Distracted
Plots
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'The Woman on the Train' just didn't sound as good. I'll take care next time not to have 'girl' in the title.
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Next Time
Take Care
Time Good Care
Title
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When I wrote 'The Girl on the Train,' nobody knew who I was, and that's quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
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Comfortable
Position
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I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.
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Naturally
Extrovert
Happiest
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People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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Christmas
Sad
Spending
Terribly
Sadder
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I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?
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Compelling
Tragedy
Darker
Psychologically
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My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.
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Blank
Making Up
Office
Silence
Wall
Utter
Cottage
Horrendous
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I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.
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Home People Will
Encounter
Sadly
Spies
Threats
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You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times.
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Fascinating
Tricks
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Having something commissioned made it easier for me to share my work and see it out there and have people read it without feeling like there was a piece of my soul on the page.
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My Soul
Commissioned
Page
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I was commissioned to write some romantic fiction, and I really liked doing those, and they were very instructive in terms of building characters and plots. But it never felt right for me.
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Commissioned
Plots
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Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.
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Genre
Male
Equivalent
Lump
Similar
Supposedly
Tendency
Types
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Obviously, my name is known now, but I don't think people generally tend to recognize authors very much. People like J. K. Rowling maybe, Gillian Flynn might be recognized, but I reckon she could walk by me on the street, and I wouldn't know who she was.
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Walk Me People
Authors
Walk Me Street
Reckon
Rowling
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The first Amy Silver book was commissioned, and they were not books that came completely from me. They weren't necessarily the sort of books I read, and although I enjoyed doing them very much, and they were great training, I never felt completely comfortable in that genre.
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Amy
Genre
Silver
Great Me Training
Commissioned
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The sort of enjoyment that we all get from that voyeuristic impulse of looking into other people's house as we pass them, and the idea that there might be something sinister or strange going on in the houses we pass every day or in our neighborhood, is a very compelling idea.
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Compelling
Enjoyment
Impulse
Neighborhood
Sinister
Houses
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I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.
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Amy
Plot
Silver
Steer
Commissioned
First One
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I have a fascination with the nasty things people do to each other and the way relationships go wrong, and how there can be this very dark underbelly to seemingly normal, mundane domestic life. They're the stories in the newspapers I always find interesting. That's not a very nice thing to admit to, is it?
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Domestic Life
Fascination
Mundane
Nasty
Newspapers
Life Always People
Life People Way
Admit
Domestic
Nice Thing
Seemingly
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The journalism, I was a financial journalist - it's very good training as a writer. You have to write for deadlines; you have a certain economy of phrasing. As a training ground as a writer, it's fantastic. I also think it teaches you to be observant, to listen to people, and gives you an ear of dialogue from doing interviews.
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Dialogue
Fantastic
Interviews
Journalism
Journalist
Observant
Deadlines
Ear
Teaches
Training Ground
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I don't have a partner, so I take care of the mortgage by myself, and I was thinking, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to sell the house or find a new career.' I was not in a good place, but it was a real spur to get 'The Girl on the Train' right. I had to nail it and do it really well. It really concentrates the mind, that kind of thing.
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Good Place
Mortgage
New Career
Take Care
God Good Myself
Nail
Oh God
Partner
Spur
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I grew up in Zimbabwe in Southern Africa, and I moved to London when I was 17. And I started commuting and, actually, to go to college. And I used to really enjoy that part of my journey where the - it was actually a Tube train, but it was over ground, and it went right past the backs of people's houses, and I could actually see right in.
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Commuting
My Journey
Southern
Zimbabwe
Backs
Houses
Tube
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Things like the movie 'Memento' are interesting to me because our memories of the things we've done and how we've behaved form our notion of who we are, what our character is. So if part of that were missing, what does that actually say about you? And what does it say about your sense of responsibility for things if you can't remember them?
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Memento
Missing
Notion
Behaved
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I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.
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Fascinating
Ordinary
Psychology
Nature I Am People
Nature Always I Am
Banal
Behind
Interested
Crimes
Domestic
Tend
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