My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers. David Lagercrantz More Quotes by David Lagercrantz More Quotes From David Lagercrantz I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative. David Lagercrantz talkative secretive guy The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore. David Lagercrantz dont-care up care beautiful I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary. David Lagercrantz stand bad violence life I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles. David Lagercrantz thought good people ideas My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people. David Lagercrantz my-life always life people I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good. David Lagercrantz best good myself hope I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy. David Lagercrantz i-am respect sad people I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background. David Lagercrantz background say very ashamed My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low. David Lagercrantz like writing long father I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl. David Lagercrantz she strange girl enough The real demon in my life is my father. David Lagercrantz my-life real life father Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly. David Lagercrantz best money business world I know I don't want to be Stieg Larsson my whole life. David Lagercrantz know whole want life I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe. David Lagercrantz start universe said book I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be. David Lagercrantz person will great different We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right. David Lagercrantz must fight intolerance racism Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together. David Lagercrantz coming books different together I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different. David Lagercrantz you passion time science All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over. David Lagercrantz back great go literature I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not. David Lagercrantz back society life people
