Henning Mankell Quotes

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

Henning Mankell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: February 3, 1948 - October 5, 2015

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My instincts for asking questions is to press but not to be a jerk about it.

John Dickerson

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Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.

John Gavin

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The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Robert M. Pirsig

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So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

Matthew Vaughn

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By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

Jeff Giles

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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

Martin Scorsese

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A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Louis C. K.

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Time can be an enemy or a friend.

Joseph Brodsky

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No one reads anything. They just look at images.

Jonathan Anderson

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I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. I think this country deserves to be able to get out and foster that talent. Give them an opportunity to become stars. I think the whole idea is wonderful.

Donald O'Connor

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In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Ashwin Sanghi

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