Henning Mankell

“There is no such thing as a world without combat, no civilization which doesn't start off by laying down the rules for…

— Henning Mankell

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

— Henning Mankell

Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them,…

— Henning Mankell

“He walked out and closed the door. Linda had the feeling that she was imprisoned, not with a lock and key, but…

— Henning Mankell

“Endless numbers of people surround you as you travel through life. Some you notice briefly, then forget. With others you make eye…

— Henning Mankell

When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the…

— Henning Mankell

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of…

— Henning Mankell

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

— Henning Mankell

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that…

— Henning Mankell

“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote…

— Henning Mankell

“Things are as they are.”

— Henning Mankell

“There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.”

— Henning Mankell

“Do you know what the wind tastes like? […] Mysterious spices […] that tell us about people and events far away. That…

— Henning Mankell

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering…

— Henning Mankell

“He could feel his stomach churning. I’m repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don’t have time for. I’m searching…

— Henning Mankell

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

— Henning Mankell

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

— Henning Mankell

“The wife of the dead man had thrown herself down in the mud, and her wails were so piercing that several of…

— Henning Mankell

“A message was scribbled on the wall: Life is for sale. Alert the news for the media .”

— Henning Mankell

“The cold grips us like handcuffs and the heat is the liberating key.”

— Henning Mankell

“In my life I have met people who have committed horrendous and barbaric acts. I have met child soldiers who have murdered…

— Henning Mankell

“Trusting what a person says is always a risk. The truth is always provisional, while lies are often solid.”

— Henning Mankell

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

— Henning Mankell

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking…

— Henning Mankell

“A dead black man—nothing to bother about.”

— Henning Mankell