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"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."
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"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."
"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature."
"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties."
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"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail."
"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."
"I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong."
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