"Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact."

-- Jo Nesbo

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“Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.”
“Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.”
“Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.”
“People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.”

Source : "Mugabe's Hold on Africans". Interview with Peter Biles, news.bbc.co.uk. August 25, 2007.
“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story youâ€™ve been listening to - all the pieces of music youâ€™ve ever heard.”

Source : "Brian Eno: Success ruins artists". Interview with Davide Mitchell, www.salon.com. October 2, 2011.
“People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.”
“... after being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.”

Source : "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.
“You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.”

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