Stieg Larsson Quotes

Stieg Larsson
Swedish Writer
Born: Aug 15, 1954
Died: Nov 9, 2004
Crime Detective Entertainment Life People Society
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe. Stieg Larsson
Life People Events Walk Real Life Society Universe Books Characters Minor Well Isolated Real Integrated Lines Effect Just Interact Happens
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. Stieg Larsson
Writing Police Innocent Too Much Will Too Everybody Kind Threatened Threats Fail Come Most Call Occasionally Without Been Texts Gets Happen Happens Might Much Who Things
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Stieg Larsson
Entertainment Writing Light Detective Detective Stories Classical Propaganda About Primarily Question Stories Literature
Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women. Stieg Larsson
Women Val Enough Some Writers Almost Almost All Praised George Strangely
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. Stieg Larsson
Word Crime Everything Correct Easy Per Write Writer Article Where Cent Much Novels Fast Harder
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. Stieg Larsson
Thoughts Editing Words Better Matters Say Ability Both Hacked Put Altogether Edited Editor Am Texts Confident Being After Which Them Used Away
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences. Stieg Larsson
Character People Crime Consequences Pleases Those Abhor Having Main Main Character He He Or She She Without However Normal Normal People Behave Which Social Actions Novels Things

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