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Stieg Larsson Quotes

I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swedish
Birth: August 15, 1954 - November 9, 2004

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Easy Fast Crime Write Everything

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

Grow Fence White Know Want Kid

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Culture Obedience Theme Sense Been

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Love Settings Worlds Characters

If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.

Good Think Better Pretty Must Than

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Women Young Women Are Most Painted

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

Woman New York Mind Independent Woman

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

Wish You Duty More Never Old

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

Decision Day Door Prison Hurt Guilt

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

Change Technology Tree Leaf Camera

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

Dominique Moceanu

Eyes School Hair Small Haircut Gym

I spent eight years living without heat and hot water.

Water Living Hot Heat Years Without

Before I wrote my first novel, 'The Expats,' I spent nearly two decades at various arms of publishing houses such as Random House, Workman, and HarperCollins, mostly as an acquisitions editor. But a more accurate title for that job might be rejection editor: while I acquired maybe a dozen projects per year, I'd reject hundreds upon hundreds.

Job Random Rejection Year House Two

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