top of page

"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Consequence quotes

"I really hope that the Japanese are going to stop demonstrating to the world what man-made radiation does to people."

"An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."

"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."

"A consequence may be the very thing that saves us because it was the only thing loud enough to get our attention."

"Good intentions but bad results, bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark."

"The price of ignorance is usually a life of frustration and destruction."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away)."
Explore more quotes by Steig Larsson


"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."


"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."


"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature."


"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."


"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine."
bottom of page