Steig Larsson Quotes

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• I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they…
• I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be…
• Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in…
• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
• Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say...…
• Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
• I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the…
• To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
• Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
• What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
• Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He…
• When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will be to arrange…
• In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had time to see. He…
• Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.
• There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
• The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists,…
• Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
• Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.
• She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
• There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

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