Jo Nesbo Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Influence, Crime

• Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Teens, Novel

• 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.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Evil, Ambitious

• 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.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

• 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.

  Jo Nesbo

  Believe, Writing, Made

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

• For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Hotel Lobby, Airports

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2012.

• Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Other Cultures, Opposites

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

• I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

  Jo Nesbo

  Coffee, Writing, Airports

• The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

  Jo Nesbo

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

• 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.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Trying, Stories

• Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

  Jo Nesbo

  Passion, Writing, People

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 31, 1994.

• Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Ideas, Plot

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