What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
Lie rather still because this is the first time I’ve used this equipment.
When this is all over I’m going to found an association called ‘The Knights of the Idiotic Table’ and its purpose will be to arrange an annual dinner where we tell stories about Lisbeth Salander. You’re all members.
In the evening he went to the cinema to see “The Lord of the Rings”, which he had never before had time to see. He thought that orcs, unlike human beings, were simple and uncomplicated creatures.
When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
I’ve read crime fiction all my life. A thing that’s bothered me about crime fiction is that it’s generally about one or two people, but there’s not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.
The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most ‘innocent’ texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
Don’t exaggerate. Just give your natural bitchy selves full rein.
You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn’t much time left.
You’re an entropic chaos factor.
It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.