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“You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.”

Quote by Jo Nesbo

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Jo Nesbø is a Norwegian author known for his crime novels. His works are renowned for their complex characters and gripping plots, enjoying widespread popularity among readers worldwide. more

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“You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.”

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“Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.”

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“I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.”

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“My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.”

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“As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.”

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“Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.”

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“I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equated with his fall.”

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