Quotes by Stieg Larsson - Page 1

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Friends
Duty
Revenge
Yourself
Absolute
Exact
Yourself Duty Your
Right
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
Stieg Larsson /
Nineties
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
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Ordinary
Detective
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Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.
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Almost All
George
Praised
Strangely
Val
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
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Crime
Article
Cent
Correct
Per
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
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Detective Stories
Propaganda
Classical
Detective
Primarily
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
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Crime
Entertainment
Forms
Exist
Popular
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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
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Detective Stories
Irritated
Persons
Describe
Detective
One Or Two
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
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Behave
Crime
Abhor
Actions
He Or She
Main Character
Normal People
Novels
Pleases
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
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Legal
Legal Rights
Lukewarm
New Generation
Police
Swedish
Threatened
Authorities
Produces
Shown
Testify
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I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
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Innocent
Threatened
Fail
Occasionally
Texts
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In real life, people are integrated into society. That's what happens in my books as well. Minor characters don't just walk in and spout lines, they interact and have an effect on the events. It's not an isolated universe.
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Integrated
Isolated
Lines
Real Life
Universe
Books
Effect
Walk
Interact
Minor
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I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
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Edited
Hacked
Altogether
Confident
Editor
Texts
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I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
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Backdrop
Bothered
Crime
Crime Fiction
All My Life
Life Society Me
Pattern
Supporting
Supporting Role
Two People
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In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.
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Adopted
Crime
Instance
Presentation
Usual
Avoid
Many Respects
Normally
Outlawed
Respects
Techniques
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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.
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Airplane
Booze
Crime
Instance
Appear
Complex
Drastically
Operas
Types
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