Jo Nesbo

“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”

— Jo Nesbo

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

— Jo Nesbo

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

— Jo Nesbo

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain…

— Jo Nesbo

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

— Jo Nesbo

Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia…

— Jo Nesbo

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia…

— Jo Nesbo

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…

— Jo Nesbo

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that…

— Jo Nesbo

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

— Jo Nesbo

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

— Jo Nesbo

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

— Jo Nesbo

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart…

— Jo Nesbo

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing…

— Jo Nesbo

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to…

— Jo Nesbo

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

— Jo Nesbo

. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life.…

— Jo Nesbo

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I…

— Jo Nesbo

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that…

— Jo Nesbo

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest…

— Jo Nesbo

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear…

— Jo Nesbo

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went…

— Jo Nesbo