Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores. Jo Nesbo More Quotes by Jo Nesbo More Quotes From Jo Nesbo I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it. Jo Nesbo smell knowing fear What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die. Jo Nesbo wanting-to-die persons want Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. Jo Nesbo losing life-is reason Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read. Jo Nesbo written over-you As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea. Jo Nesbo typewriters self believe Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller. Jo Nesbo crime-novels names fiction Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks. Jo Nesbo cracks wall long I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof. Jo Nesbo burden-of-proof common-sense heaven Love is a greater mystery than death. Jo Nesbo mystery greater love-is Doubt is faith's shadow. Jo Nesbo shadow doubt I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. Jo Nesbo keith reading culture Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean. Jo Nesbo clean individual love I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. Jo Nesbo matter character interesting Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to the so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. Jo Nesbo revenge animal men Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything you’ve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didn’t know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you don’t notice the sleeping creature, it’s just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, I’ve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong. Jo Nesbo sleep lying thinking There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire. Jo Nesbo satisfying desire feels To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside Jo Nesbo take-a-chance destroyed chance You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling. Jo Nesbo home art thinking I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do. Jo Nesbo ambitious evil writing My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.' Jo Nesbo grandparent names father
