Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. Jo Nesbo More Quotes by Jo Nesbo More Quotes From Jo Nesbo 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. Jo Nesbo oslocostbeautiful It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason. Jo Nesbo inspirationreason Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. Jo Nesbo passionwritingpeople When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures. Jo Nesbo readingcountryculture The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. Jo Nesbo scandinavianssecretdark We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness. Jo Nesbo bombscuttingunderstanding 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. Jo Nesbo voicetwopast In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements. Jo Nesbo climbingwallsports At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. Jo Nesbo playerleaguesoccer I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again. Jo Nesbo madewritingbelieve Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo plotwritingideas For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. Jo Nesbo homecountryyears Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. Jo Nesbo childhoodfactsfirsts . 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. Jo Nesbo drugattitudepeople 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. Jo Nesbo teenagermotherfather A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. Jo Nesbo ratsevildoe Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed. Jo Nesbo degreessicklooks Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament. Jo Nesbo here-and-nowdonedoubt What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain. Jo Nesbo painbelievethinking We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are. Jo Nesbo who-we-are
