Connections Quote by Graciela Iturbide

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs…

— Maj Sjowall

I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

— Pilou Asbaek

I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning…

— Greg Poehler

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface.…

— Alexander Ahndoril

If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for…

— Per Petterson

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think…

— Per Petterson

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

— Tim Cahill

I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages are so…

— Lady Amelia Windsor

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

— Lee Hazlewood

If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.

— Ambrose

Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small…

— Karin Tidbeck