Everything You Do Leaves Traces, Doesn't It.

You Get Spoiled As A Novelist Because You Get To Be The Director And The Editor, And You Play All The Parts, But As A Screenwriter, You Are A Bit Down The Ladder.

I Have Questioned Myself About The Brutality In The Last Few Novels. Actually In The Leopard, In Hindsight, I Feel I Went A Little Bit Too Far With Screaming Blood. There Are A Couple Of Scenes That I Regret And Wish I Had The Chance To Rewrite. Phantom Has Less Blood.

At Nineteen I Was Pretty Sure I Was Going To Be A Professional Soccer Player. At That Time I Played For One Of The Norwegian Premier Leagues. But I Tore Ligaments In Both Knees, So I Started Studying Business Administration And Economics And Became A Financial Analyst, And I Worked At A Brokerage Firm As A Stockbroker.

A Rat Is Neither Good Nor Evil. It Does What A Rat Has To Do.

They Say That Every Writer, They Write About Himself, And I Think That To A Certain Extent That Is True. But Also We Are Creators Of Fiction.