Icelander - Novelist | February 18, 1959 -
I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.
Hallgrimur Helgason
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Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.
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As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
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You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.
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In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.
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Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
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