Jo Nesbo Quotes
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.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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I am healthy and happy.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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The fans treated me royally.
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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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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.
