Words matter. These are the best Paula Hawkins Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.
I was kind of broke . ‘The Girl on the Train’ was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.
When I’m writing, I don’t read much crime at all – you don’t want to get distracted by other people’s plots.
I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn’t it?
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.
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.
I am single and without children. I’m actually one of those people who’s just never had a great desire to have kids.
‘The Woman on the Train’ just didn’t sound as good. I’ll take care next time not to have ‘girl’ in the title.
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.
I’m not romantic, and I don’t like Christmas.
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.
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.
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.
When I wrote ‘The Girl on the Train,’ nobody knew who I was, and that’s quite a comfortable position to be writing in.
People think it’s terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it’s no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
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.
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.
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.
