"Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat -……" — Steig Larsson
"Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?"
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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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