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Jo Nesbo Quotes

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Jo Nesbo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: March 29, 1960

Topics

Success Writing Same Cultures Thanks

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

Jesse McCartney

Day School Baseball Team High School

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

John Burnside

Bird Identity World Song Lose Way

But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

John Frankenheimer

Choice Company Active Line Producer

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

Mesut Ozil

Thankful Best Football I Am Parents

Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.

John Sandford

People Trying Kind Write Out Sit

I approach spring training the same way every year.

Steve Clevenger

Training Spring Year Way Same Every

I don't plan tours necessarily around records. I know that's what most people do.

Tom Scholz

People Plan Know Records Most Tours

If a company want to cast its net widely, they will absolutely find qualified women. I don't really think there are any real barriers to that.

Mary Dillon

Women Think Find Want Will Barriers

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Martin Rees

Challenge Commitment Moon Energy

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

Michelle Williams

People Choices Learn Opinions Labor

Before running for Congress, I was an innovator and entrepreneur who founded several high-tech businesses that created hundreds of jobs and schools that found ways to serve those children that traditional schools couldn't.

Jared Polis

Children Entrepreneur Congress Serve

There's something that's delightful about things getting bigger and more over-the-top. Sometimes it's empty, and other times, it's just fun.

Christopher Miller

Fun Sometimes More Empty Bigger