Ever Since I Was In My Teens

I Tell Myself I Write Because I Want To Say Something True And Original About The Nature Of Evil. That Is Very Ambitious - To Say Something About The Human Condition That Hasn't Been Written Before. Probably I Will Never Succeed But That Is What I Strive To Do.

Good Police Officers Are Ugly.

The Myth About Me As A Footballer Has Grown: I Am Now The Lost Maradona Of Norway.

Many Scandinavian Writers Who Had Made Their Name In Literary Fiction Felt They Wanted To Have A Go At The Crime Novel To Show They Could Compete With The Best. If Salman Rushdie Had Been Norwegian, He Would Definitely Have Written At Least One Thriller.

Crime Fiction Is A Genre For Writing Stories About People - About Conflict, About Guilt, About Passion, About The Human Condition.