Jo Nesbo Quotes

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• Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

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  Losing, Life Is, Reason

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• What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

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  Want, Wanting To Die, Persons

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• 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.

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  Fear, Smell, Knowing

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.65, Random House

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

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  Over You, Written

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• Love is a greater mystery than death.

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  Love Is, Mystery, Greater

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• 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.

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  Art, Home, Thinking

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

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• I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.

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  Burden Of Proof, Common Sense, Heaven

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• Doubt is faith's shadow.

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  Doubt, Shadow

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• 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.

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  Believe, Typewriters, Self

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• Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.

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  Wall, Long, Cracks

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

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  Love, Clean, Individual

  Jo Nesbo (2014). “The Son”, p.505, Random House

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• There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

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  Desire, Feels, Satisfying

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

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  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

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

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

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  Chance, Take A Chance, Destroyed

  Jo Nesbo (2009). “The Devil's Star: Harry Hole 5”, p.248, Random House

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• A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

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  Morality, Accepting, Persons

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• A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

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  Evil, Doe, Rats

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• Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.

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  Lying, Sleep, Thinking

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

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  Cutting, Understanding, Bombs

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

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  Opposites, Evil, Void

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.114, Random House

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• It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.

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  Inspiration, Reason

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.203, Random House

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• I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

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  Character, Interesting, Matter

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• Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived.

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  Revenge, Animal, Men

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• I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.

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  Reading, Culture, Keith

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• With regard to power, women don't have the vanity men have. They don't need to make power visible, they only want the power to give them the other things they want. Security. Food. Enjoyment. Revenge. Peace. They are rational, power-seeking planners, who think beyond the battle, beyond the victory celebrations. And because they have an inborn capacity to see weakness in their victims, they know instinctively when and how to strike. And when to stop. You can't learn that.

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  Revenge, Thinking, Men

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• 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.

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  Writing, Evil, Ambitious

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