"Sometimes they were together so often that it……" — Steig Larsson
"Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other."
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113 Quotes by Steig Larsson
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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one…
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article,…
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Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how…
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That…
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try…
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical…
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea…
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
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What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have…
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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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