"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."

-- Jo Nesbo

#Writing Quotes #Influence Quotes #Crime Quotes

“Bulgaria is the first state that has been awarded for its excellent fight against iodine deficiency by UNICEF”
“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”

Source : "Human Croquet: A Novel".
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
“Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.”
“I support myself by public speaking and trying to work on as many appropriate and legitimate ventures as I can.”
“The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.”

Source : Nicholas Ray (1993). “I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies”, p.28, Univ of California Press
“I write to find out what I'm talking about.”
“Upwell is one of the most terrifyingly great bands I have ever known out of Seattle. Their musicianship and songwriting is monstrous... They're heavy like Soundgarden or Zeppelin with killer female vocals, but with their own unique style.”

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