The Woman on the Train’ just didn’t sound as good. I’ll take care next time not to have ‘girl’ in the title. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
When I wrote ‘The Girl on the Train,’ nobody knew who I was, and that’s quite a comfortable position to be writing in. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
