Sophie Kinsella Quotes

If you are to be Hercule Poirot, you must think of everything.

I wouldn't, a little bit frightened but throughout my life I'd learnt that when you're in the serious situations, you've got to try to stay calm. Because that's the way you get out of them.

Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.

If you can get rid of the emotion and concentrate on the problem, you can solve the problem.

You know my methods. Apply them.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.

Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.

I was always a big fan of 'Quincy,' and I loved the idea of puzzle solving.

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

I've always been able to stay calm in high-pressure situations.