They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

I never speak in silence.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.

I've managed stations.

The important thing is not the size of your faith - it is the One behind your faith - God Himself.

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.