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.

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.

Death is never very pretty.

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.

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

Did I hurt you in the parking lot?""No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."Great.

Don’t expect miracles why you have not done anything.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

The phrase "Be Good to Each Other" is very important to me and something that I wish had been said more when I was in high school.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can’t make anything.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

Eeek,” Shane said. Nothing. Right, Amazon princess, I got the point.