Henning Mankell

“God allowed no mistakes.”

— Henning Mankell

“New ideas are always resisted.”

— Henning Mankell

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

— Henning Mankell

“The truth changes all the time.”

— Henning Mankell

“Not everything can go according to the plan.”

— Henning Mankell

“Someone must lead the way.”

— Henning Mankell

The evil always comes from details.

— Henning Mankell

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

— Henning Mankell

“In the biological world children are the sole purpose. Nothing else matters.”

— Henning Mankell

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

— Henning Mankell

People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.

— Henning Mankell

“The Christian world had become mired in a bog of misconceptions and had tried God's patience.”

— Henning Mankell

“If a policeman is serious about his profession but says he has time, he lies.”

— Henning Mankell

“It is so incredibly easy to take risks with the lives of other people.”

— Henning Mankell

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

— Henning Mankell

“A full description of a person's life, however uneventful or uninteresting, fills a large folder.”

— Henning Mankell

“Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things…

— 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

“‎The game had started. Everybody was assuring everybody else how reliable they were. In fact, nobody trusted anybody but themselves”

— Henning Mankell

“A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don’t want…

— Henning Mankell

“Somewhere in the dark a vast meaninglessness was beckoning to him. A grinning face that laughed scornfully at all his vain attempts…

— Henning Mankell

Memory is like glass. A person who has died is still visible, very close. But we can no longer contact each other.…

— Henning Mankell

“La plupart des voyages dont on rêve n'ont jamais lieu. Ou alors on les accomplit intérieurement. L'avantage, quand on emprunte ces vols…

— Henning Mankell

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who…

— Henning Mankell

“Even a short-lived visit to the bottom level of society means that one is faced with one of the most important decisions…

— Henning Mankell

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

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful…

— Henning Mankell

“A few minutes later he returned, shaking his head. “It must have been Björk’s private map,” he said. “I couldn’t find it.”…

— Henning Mankell

Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art.…

— Henning Mankell

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of…

— Henning Mankell

“Facing up to cancer is a battle conducted on many fronts. The important thing is not to waste too much strength fighting…

— Henning Mankell

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling…

— Henning Mankell

“We’re always being made promises,’ she said. ‘You make them yourself and you listen to others giving theirs. Politicians are always going…

— Henning Mankell

“Martinsson fired. Wallander watched Lucia fly back and put his hand up to his shoulder. The gun fell from his hand and…

— Henning Mankell

“Could you hold Martinsson’s flashlight for a moment?” Wallander said to Hansson. “Why?” “Just do it, please.” Martinsson handed Hansson his flashlight.…

— Henning Mankell

“I'm a religious man," he said. "I don't believe in a particular God, but even so one can have a faith, something…

— Henning Mankell

“I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I…

— 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

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

— Henning Mankell

“It was a feeling which stayed with him after he got back home to his terrace house on the Kristianstad road. When…

— Henning Mankell