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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."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."
"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."
"On the whole, stories don't write themselves."
"The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!"
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh"
"What doesn't kill me provides writing material."
"Let's pursue the visage of imagination."
"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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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."
"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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