Jo Nesbo Quotes

Ever Since The '70s, Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo Were The Godfathers Of Scandinavian Crime. They Broke The Crime Novel In Scandinavia From The Kiosks And Into The Serious Bookstores.

I Don't Think I'll Ever Feel As Famous Or As Popular As I Felt When I Was A 17-year-old Soccer Player In Modle. Only About 20,000 People Live There And 12,000 Of Them Come To Every Game. Running Onto The Pitch Each Week Was Just The Most Fantastic Feeling. Nothing Can Beat That.

My Influence Is Probably More From American Crime Writers Than Any Europeans. And I Hardly Read Any Scandinavian Crime Before I Started Writing Myself. I Wasn't A Great Crime Reader To Begin With.

I Wasn't That Into Crime Novels At All, But A Friend Introduced Me To The Work Of Jim Thompson - I Loved All His Books.

I Have To Feel That I'm Going Somewhere All The Time. By Definition, If You Have This Urge To Go Places, Then You Can't Be 100 Percent Happy Where You Are. It's Not Like I Enjoy Being Miserable For Weeks On End. But I Think It's Good To Be Miserable For About One Day Every Third Week - That's Ideal For Me.

I Feel More Related To Some American Crime Writers Than I Do To Stieg Larsson.

We're Prisioners Of... Things.of Who We Are.

Sick Is A Relative Concept. We're All Sick. The Question Is, What Degree Of Functionality Do We Have With Respect To The Rules Society Sets For Desirable Behavior? No Actions Are In Themselves Symptoms Of Sickness. You Have To Look At The Context Within Which These Actions Are Performed.

The Stock Market To Me Was Like A Video Game. When It Went Off, It Was Like Turning The Game Off. It Wasn't Something I'd Think About Until I'd Turn The Machine On Again.

Thanks To The Success Of Henning Mankell And Peter Hoeg, There Wasn't The Same Stigma Attached To Writing Genre Thrillers In Scandinavia As There Was In Many Other Cultures. Quite The Opposite, In Fact.

All Interesting Heroes Have An Achilles Heel.

All My Friends Who Wanted To Write Had Got Nowhere Trying To Write The Great European Novel. So I Deliberately Steered Clear Of That And Set Out To Write Something Story-led.