Quote by John Scalzi

“You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!”

— Denmark

The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has…

— Jens Stoltenberg

“We're an ecological disaster." "Exactly," said the expendable.”

— Orson Scott Card

“I ate a Danish. Better than eating someone from Finland.”

— Jarod Kintz

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

“It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder, as Norway…

— Chris Nicolaisen

“People even travelled to Lapland, up there in the North, with its eternal ice and savages who gorged themselves on raw fish.”

— Patrick Süskind

We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

— Gore Vidal

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

“I consider myself a Nordic author. But I do not know exactly what that is. I think it has something to do with time,…

— Lars Saabye Christensen

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups…

— Jo Nesbo

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin