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A supervillain must continue to exist.
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Exist
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I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative.
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Guy
Secretive
Talkative
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The real demon in my life is my father.
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Demon
Life Father My Life
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Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.
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Tragic
Alan
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We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.
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Intolerance
Racism
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I'm ashamed to say that I'm from a very privileged background.
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Ashamed
Privileged
Background
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My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.
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Brilliant
Odd
Life Always People
Author
Life My Life People
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All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story.
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Good Story
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I have this reporter's temperament still in me - I thrive under pressure.
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Temperament
Thrive
Reporter
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There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.
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Money World Me
Compensate
Lousy
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The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.
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Beautiful Thing
Grown
Highbrow
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Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.
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Brilliance
Facets
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A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
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Alcohol
Conventional
Crime
Simple
Corpse
Detective
River
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All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
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Icons
Riddle
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I want to have new challenges and write new crazy books because I think it makes me a better writer to be insecure and try new things.
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Insecure
New Challenges
Better Writer
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I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
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Assignments
Clever
Iconic
Author
Invent
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You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
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Bad Idea
Search
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My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.
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Biographies
Lowest
Sportsman
Dante
Highbrow
Memoirs
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I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.
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Another Man
Combination
Best Hope Good
Something Good
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I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.
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Brilliant
Mathematician
Alan
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I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not.
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Odd
Life Society Always
Badly
Life Society People
Talented
Geniuses
Strike
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I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary.
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Fed Up
Real Life
Unnecessary
Fed
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Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.
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Best Business Money
Badly
Compensate
Seller
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My father was this huge, influential intellectual in the '60s and '70s. He was one of the main players in the cultural discussion in Sweden, the editor of papers.
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Discussion
Influential
Papers
Sweden
Cultural
Editor
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I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?
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Plot
Worthy
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I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.
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Iconic
Interpretation
Millennium
Universe
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I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.
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Respect
Sad
Respect I Am People
Eva
Maybe
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The capacity of computers is doubling every eight months. It's exponential development. I think it's a real threat, actually, that a computer one day will be more intelligent than us.
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Computers
Intelligent
Doubling
Exponential
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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'
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Capture
Complexity
Heaven
Life Good Always
Life Good Father
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If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.
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Contrast
Holmes
Watson
Extreme
Dr
Neighbors
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
Supposedly
Tommy
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I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.
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Revolutionary
Threatened
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I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.
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Assignments
Different Styles
Likes
Suggestions
Alien
Good People Never
Author
Good Happens People
Good Writer
Styles
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I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn't follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.
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Arrogant
Explaining
Great Guy
Hackers
Holes
Hire
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We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.
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Famous
August
Biographies
Crime
Dinner
Joyce
Sweden
Writer
Dante
Highbrow
James
Joseph
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