Henning Mankell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

  Henning Mankell

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 03, 2012

• It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

  Henning Mankell

  Writing, Night, Sky

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Oct 23, 2016

• One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Writing, Agony, Knows

• Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

  Henning Mankell

  Believe, Book, Writing

• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

• I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

  Henning Mankell

  Writing, Mirrors, Greek

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