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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
When I’m writing, I don’t read much crime at all – you don’t want to get distracted by other people’s plots. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
I was kind of broke . ‘The Girl on the Train’ was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer. Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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? Paula Hawkins Read Quote
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? Paula Hawkins Read Quote
People think it’s terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it’s no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it? Paula Hawkins Read Quote
