Jo Nesbo Quotes - Page 2

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

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  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.

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

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  Dark, Secret, Scandinavians

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• What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

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  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  Jo Nesbo (2014). “The Son”, p.30, Random House

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• When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

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  Book, Thinking, Exhausted

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

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  Doubt, Done, Here And Now

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

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  Writing, Ideas, Plot

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• As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

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  Beautiful, Cost, Oslo

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• 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.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

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• When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

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  Mother, Teenager, Father

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• Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

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  Cockroaches, World, Toilets

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• The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

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  Norway, Maradona, Lost

  " Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author" by Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2011.

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

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  Writing, Teens, Novel

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• I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

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  Selfish, Heart, Thinking

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• ...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

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  Piano, Sound, Sitting

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• Good police officers are ugly.

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  Police, Ugly, Police Officer

  Jo Nesbo (2009). “Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• . We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldn’t possibly want this kind of life. But maybe that’s not true. Maybe they don’t want to live like other people — it just wouldn’t suit them.

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  Attitude, People, Drug

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• What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

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  Crazy, Mean, Mad

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• Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

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  Balance, Essentials, Needs

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• 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.

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  Past, Two, Voice

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• Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

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  Morning, Ideas, Mind

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• 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.

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  Coffee, Writing, Airports

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• 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!

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  Writing, Hotel Lobby, Airports

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

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• Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime

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  Christian, Revenge, Demand

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• You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

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  Editors, Play, Novelists

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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

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