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" I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy. "
David Lagercrantz
I Am
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" We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad. "
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" If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors. "
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" I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good. "
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" There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book. "
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" I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary. "
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" All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over. "
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" Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together. "
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" I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not. "
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