Quotes by Hallgrimur Helgason - Page 1

Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.
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Landscapes
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You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.
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Hurting
Types
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For us Icelanders, the Sagas are like the Bible, only much better.
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Bible
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As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.
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Gun
Vicious
Pen
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Iceland is a rich country, but in the early 21st century, this prosperity got to our heads, and in 2008, it collapsed.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Iceland
Collapsed
Heads
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Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Distance
Homeland
English
Foreigner
Helped
Necessary
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I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Men Women Government
Emergency
Women Men Government
Proclaimed
Resign
Worse
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We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.
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Minimize
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In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Iceland
Phrase
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... I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.
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Doors
Ice
Light
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Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is crowded; every print run is sold.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Crowded
Excitement
Iceland
Print
Thanks
Fills
Sold
Talked
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Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.
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Actual
Authors
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I'm trying to write about serious issues, about Iceland's journey into modernity, about the soul of Iceland - on how people react when they get too much money too quickly and how it affects our culture.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Iceland
Modernity
Serious Issues
Affects
React
Too Much Money
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Everything is very expensive in Iceland, so I got some things done in India in the two months I was here. I visited the dentist, the optician, the tailor. When I go home, I'll have a new smile, a new wardrobe, and spectacles.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Smile
Dentist
Expensive
Iceland
India
Months
Spectacles
Wardrobe
Go Home
Some Things
Tailor
Visited
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Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Christmas
Iceland
Aside
Discuss
Opinions
Rewarded
Time People
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My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time. That's when I began writing articles for newspapers back home about life in New York. This interest took over, and I moved from painting to writing.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Articles
Manhattan
Newspapers
Life Time Learning
Tough Time
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In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Quench
Streets
Thirst
Anyone Else
Hardly
Societal
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Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.
Hallgrimur Helgason / Painter
Aristocratic
Delicate
Sensitivity
Tension
Best Great Amazing
Creates
Puts
Tale
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