When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering… — 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
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden,… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most… — 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
Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Working with keys is always meaningful. Locking and opening is, in a sense, man's very purpose on this earth.” — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
