"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."

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Source : "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

Jo Nesbo

#Art Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.”
“As the head of a religious party, I am not in favor of civil marriage or the full recognition of non-Orthodox converts in Israel.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The first interview I went on I got at age 5. It was a commercial for First Federal Bank.”
“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”
“When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.”
“And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.”

Source : Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.292, Pan Macmillan
“My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.”
“Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it's done. And by the time you get it in, it's done and you're sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn't do. I mean, writing isn't fun. It's never been fun.”

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