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Karin Fossum Quotes

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: 1954

Topics

Life Work Hard Work God Keep Going

An easy way to find your own style is to exaggerate yourself a bit and then find a balance.

Johan Lindeberg

Style Yourself Balance Easy Find

I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.

Andie MacDowell

Think Sexy You Young Mean Get

For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.

Music Passion Time Me Career Way

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

American Never Soldiers British Been

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities.

History Responsibility Politics Job

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Way Listen Everything Some

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

Life Man My Life Want Single Paid

Besides the conventional military threats, North Korean cyber capabilities are growing.

Growing Cyber Military Threats North

Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Work Famous Short Attention Alive

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Antoine Predock

Experience Together Architecture Fish

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

Me Opportunities Rich Famous New

All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn't afford.

Tattoos Get Wanted Afford

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