Henning Mankell Quotes

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• I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.
• I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the…
• I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.
• My mother did what many men do. She left.
• One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
• When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.
• You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.
• Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was…
• Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is…
• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in…
• At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to…
• Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always…
• Go to Mozambique! As long as you don't expect to find flawless infrastructure, just go. Because this is a country where people have not quite…
• Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art. I believe that…
• I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my…
• I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must…
• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and…
• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with…
• Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses,…
• I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that…

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