Maj Sjowall Quotes

• Death is never very pretty.

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  Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (2010). “Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (9)”, p.6, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

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  Mother, Thinking, Ineffectiveness

  Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (2010). “Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)”, p.68, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Siempre teníamos problemas de dinero. A veces me pasaba la noche en vela preguntándome cómo pagar el alquiler.

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  Lying, Night, Pay

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.

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  Book, Men, Directors

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• People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

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  People, Political, Mystery

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• I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.

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  Book, Reading, Crime Novels

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• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

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  Girl, Attitude, Growing Up

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

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  Summer, Mother, Children

  "The queen of crime" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.

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  Book, Views, People

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

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  Country, Jobs, Sweden

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