5 Quotes & Sayings By Mo Hayder

Mo Hayder is a British author who has written eleven novels, two novellas and four collections of short stories. She is also the author of two non-fiction books, one on writing and another on crime fiction. Hayder has worked as a journalist and as a creative writing tutor and has been a lecturer at several universities. She now lives in London and is married with two children Read more

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I had an overwhelming sense of the lonliness of this city - a trillion souls in their bedrooms, high in the cliffs of windows. I thought of what was underneath it all - I thought of the electricty cables, steam, water, fire, subway trains and lava in the city's guts, the subterranean rumbling of trains and earthquakes. I thought of the dead souls from the war, concreted over. Mo Hayder
I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world...
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I'm a post-menopausal woman who's lived in a man's world for twenty years. A more cynical, cruel creature it's hard to find. Mo Hayder
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I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough. Mo Hayder
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Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"" I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours. Mo Hayder