One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Letters...People do not write the truth; they write the things that, they believe, you would like to read.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I am constantly reminded that we human beings are basically storytellers. More homo narrans than Homo sapiens. We see ourselves in others'… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share
My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do… — Henning Mankell Copy Share
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“The experience he'd gained during his years in the police force had given him this unambiguous answer: there are no murderers. Only ordinary people… — Henning Mankell Copy Share
We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings. — Henning Mankell Copy Share
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“This is what Sweden is - quiet people leaning over the newspapers and coffee cups, each one with his own thoughts and destiny.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols intérieurs, c'est… — Henning Mankell Copy Share
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell Copy Share
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror. — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“Your memories will be a flock of birds, silently flying in the sky. You will see them flying in and see them flying away.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share
“In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share
