Henning Mankell Quotes - Page 3

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• For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

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  Children, Widows And Orphans, Political

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• What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

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  Suicide, Morning, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jan 07, 2013

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• I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

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  World, Earth, Seeing

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

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  Writing, Agony, Knows

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• When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

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  Answers, Lists, Novel

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• When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.

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  Moving, Animal, Europe

  "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

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  Wings, Bird, Shooting

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

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  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

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  Children, Father, Book

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• Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

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  Cities, Organization, Village

  Henning Mankell (2011). “The Dogs of Rig: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

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  Different, Awful, Way

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

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  One Day, Exotic Places, World

  "True crime" by Ian Thomson, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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