Death is never very pretty.

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events.

When I am working, I am working. When I am promoting, I am promoting. The rest of the time, I try to stay under the radar a bit.

Sometimes without shooting a picture germinates in your head. Other times, you keep taking pictures of the same thing and watch the images mature and grow.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Science is uncertain.

Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.