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" The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again. "
Jo Nesbo
Me
Stock Market
Think
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" 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. "
Jo Nesbo
Crime
Myself
Great
" 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually. "
Jo Nesbo
Know
Past
Story
" You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder. "
Jo Nesbo
Play
Director
Down
" I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that. "
Jo Nesbo
People
Think
Soccer
" For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle. "
Jo Nesbo
Three
Home
Puzzle
" The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants. "
Jo Nesbo
Change
Book
Pressure
" All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led. "
Jo Nesbo
Great
Out
Trying
" Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. "
Jo Nesbo
Thanks
Writing
Success
" I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again. "
Jo Nesbo
Friend
Writing
Up
" 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. "
Jo Nesbo
Evil
Myself
Nature
" I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson. "
Jo Nesbo
American
Than
Some
" For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write! "
Jo Nesbo
Hotel
Waiting
Best
" 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. "
Jo Nesbo
Since
Broke
Crime
" All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel. "
Jo Nesbo
Interesting
Heroes
Heel
" Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. "
Jo Nesbo
Water
Architecture
Museum
" I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books. "
Jo Nesbo
Loved
Friend
Crime
" When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea. "
Jo Nesbo
Great
Book
Chance
" At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker. "
Jo Nesbo
Business
Going
Financial
" The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. "
Jo Nesbo
Nature
Will
Secrets
" I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood. "
Jo Nesbo
Feel
Regret
Chance
" Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself. "
Jo Nesbo
Me
Myself
Think
" I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect. "
Jo Nesbo
Good
Think
Selfish
" I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. "
Jo Nesbo
Life
Youth
Innocent
" They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction. "
Jo Nesbo
They Say
Think
Write
" I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me. "
Jo Nesbo
Happy
Good
Day
" You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling. "
Jo Nesbo
Universe
Art
You
" Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel. "
Jo Nesbo
Point
Write
Ever
" The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. "
Jo Nesbo
Now
Norway
Myth
" I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time. "
Jo Nesbo
Your
You
Time
" I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere. "
Jo Nesbo
Time
Writing
I Am