"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature,……" — Steig Larsson
"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature."
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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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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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In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before…
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I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
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I did a pop album, 'Sogno,' in 1999. I think it's important to record another pop album because many people…
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
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Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances,…
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes…
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I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.
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We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for…
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