"Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per……" — Jo Nesbo
"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 and into the serious bookstores."
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65 Quotes by Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbo has 65 quotes on this site.
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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…
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At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played…
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I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer…
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What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who…
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All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.
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Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know,…
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Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet.…
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I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide,…
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...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting…
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The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things…
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When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture,…
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All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately…
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it…
— George Carlin
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd…
— Diablo Cody
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
— Albert Mohler
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I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial…
— Michael Jordan
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That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with…
— Clare B. Dunkle
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and…
— Jessica Chastain
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I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
— Garrett Hedlund
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I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number…
— Chetan Bhagat
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