Jo Nesbo Quotes

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• Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.
• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian…
• I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about…
• What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
• All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.
• Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and…
• Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.
• I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell…
• ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in…
• The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
• When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to…
• All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and…
• Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of…
• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat,…
• Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
• You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into…
• As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but…
• You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a…
• Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks…
• I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

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