The Myth About Me As A Footballer

My Influence Is Probably More From American Crime Writers Than Any Europeans. And I Hardly Read Any Scandinavian Crime Before I Started Writing Myself. I Wasn't A Great Crime Reader To Begin With.

Those Golden Minutes Before You Are Completely Awake, When Your Mind Is Just Drifting, You Have No Censorship; You Are Ready To Develop Any Kind Of Idea. That's When I Come Up With The Best And Worst Ideas. That Is The Privilege Of Being A Writer - That You Can Stay In Bed For An Hour In The Morning And It's Work Time.

I Feel More Related To Some American Crime Writers Than I Do To Stieg Larsson.

Intuition Is Just The Sum Of All Your Experience. The Way I See It, Everything You’ve Experienced, Everything You Know, You Think You Know And Didn’t Know You Knew Is There In Your Subconscious Lying Dormant, As It Were. As A Rule You Don’t Notice The Sleeping Creature, It’s Just There, Snoring And Absorbing New Things, Right. But Now And Then It Blinks, Stretches And Tells You, Hey, I’ve Seen This Picture Before. And Tells You Where In The Picture Things Belong.

Ever Since The '70s, Maj Sjowall And Per Wahloo Were The Godfathers Of Scandinavian Crime. They Broke The Crime Novel In Scandinavia From The Kiosks And Into The Serious Bookstores.