Stieg Larsson Quotes

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

Stieg Larsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ProblemsAnxietyHobbyCreateCrime

My sister is my biggest Broadway hero.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

HeroSisterBroadwayBiggest

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Robert Harris

MedicalImpossibleYouKnowWrite

The good news is people are watching more video than ever before; they're just watching in places that often aren't rated and aren't monetized.

Steve Burke

GoodPeopleGood NewsNewsWatching

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Steve Jobs

LifeTimeMoneyPreciousCostClear

I didn't really enjoy school. I wouldn't say they were my golden years.

Sophie Wu

SchoolEnjoySayGoldenYearsWere

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

Jay Y. Lee

CareTake CareFaultThingsTake

'Jolene' has been very popular all of these years, even overseas.

Dolly Parton

YearsBeenEvenVeryPopular

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Deb Caletti

MarriageSolitudeCompanyOften

I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it, I wake up at 4, take a train to the mountains, sleep in the train and then go snowboard, and then come back. It was quite a mission.

Chloe Kim

MountainsSleepMeCrazyWake Up

'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

Claire Denis

ChildhoodBeginningChildMeEnd

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Brian Helgeland

TruthLieReachDoingLongYou

I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

Bruno Mars

GoodMusicWantMoreEventsOut

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