Henning Mankell Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.”

“I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!”

“I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.”

“My mother did what many men do. She left.”

“One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.”

“When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.”

“I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.”

“What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.”

“As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.”

“Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.”