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 More Quotes by Jo Nesbo More Quotes From Jo Nesbo It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason. Jo Nesbo inspiration reason Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. Jo Nesbo passion writing people 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 reading country culture 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 scandinavians secret dark 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 bombs cutting understanding 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 voice two past 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 climbing wall sports 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 player league soccer 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 made writing believe Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo plot writing ideas 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 home country years 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 childhood facts firsts . 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 drug attitude people 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 teenager mother father A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do. Jo Nesbo rats evil doe 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 degrees sick looks 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-now done doubt What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain. Jo Nesbo pain believe thinking We're prisioners of... things.Of who we are. Jo Nesbo who-we-are I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books. Jo Nesbo crime-novels crime book
