Steig Larsson Quotes - Page 5

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• Martin was dafter than a syphilitic polecat - where do I get these metaphors from?

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  Metaphor

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• It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

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  Problem, Cry, Method

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• Oppurtunity Makes the Thief

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  Thieves, Catchy, Oppurtunity

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• You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

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  Teenager, Feelings, Time Left

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• There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.

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  Freak, Said

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• It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.

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  Cry

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• -Who knows about this? -Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.

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  Police, Killers, Knows

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• I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

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  Writing, Crime Novels, Easy

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• Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.

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  Jobs, Matter, Talent

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• I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

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  Fun, Book, Writing

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• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

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  Book, Ordinary, Stories

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• Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.

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  Trying, Stories, Entertainment

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• Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

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  Writing, Light, Stories

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• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

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  Character, Two, People

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• I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

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  Editing, Editors, Matter

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• I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.

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  Couple, Book, Writing

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• The whole organization seemed to be in free fall, indulging in a collective fantasy in which experienced colleagues refused to admit that their every movement, every decision that was made and implemented, only led them one step closer to the abyss.

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  Fall, Organization, Decision

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

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  Rights, Years, Police

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• I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.

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  Writing, Police, Too Much

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• History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and took part in battles on the same terms as men, though hardly a war has been waged without women soldiers in the ranks.

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  War, Men, Soldier

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• Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

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