Jo Nesbo Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.”

“I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.”

“I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.”

“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.”

“I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.”

“All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.”

“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.”

“'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.”

“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.”

“I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.”