Portrait of Sophie Quick

Sophie Quick

Sophie Quick is the Wheeler Centre's Senior Writer/Editor.

News

Quick Draw: What did Guy de Maupassant use as a paperweight?

Meet the Hot Desk Fellows: second round for 2015

Working with Words: Susan Butler

‘Who’, ‘What’, ‘When’… Interrogative Words Rated out of Ten

Quick Draw: Who first wrote ‘It was a dark and stormy night?'

Working with Words: Robbie Arnott

Quick Draw: How boring is ‘Bleak House’?

Quick Draw: Did Salman Rushdie invent the Aero bar?

Working with Words: Misha Ketchell

Quick Draw: Did Astrid Lindgren bring down the Swedish Government?

Quick Draw: Is Barbara Cartland definitely still dead?

Quick Draw: Did atheist Jean-Paul Sartre write, direct and star in a nativity play?

Notes

The Private Investigator: ‘the truth is we drive old cars and don’t have moustaches’

The Financial Planner: ‘if I wanted to be a proper financial adviser, I would not work for a bank'

The Hair and Make-up Artist: ‘It all changed with HD'

The Recycling Collector: ‘Some loads are so bad, and so mixed up, that they can’t be sorted … It becomes landfill'

The Theatre Technician: ‘magicians fool others by fooling themselves’

The Reality TV Casting Producer: ‘there are some people who really are just motivated by the abstract idea of winning'

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