"A journalist finds out things by asking questions……" — Steig Larsson

"A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know."

— Steig Larsson

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113 Quotes by Steig Larsson

Steig Larsson has 113 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one…
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article,…
Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how…
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That…
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try…
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical…
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea…
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…
When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its…

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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic. — Orlando Bloom
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Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure… — Jorge Luis Borges

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