Stieg Larsson (Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson) Quotes

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Thing

• Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • High
  • Want
  • Matter

• Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Why
  • Decisions
  • Consequences

• Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • World
  • Country
  • Drama

• The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Consequences
  • Probability

• Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Language
  • Consequences

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• What happens in the heart simply happens.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Heart
  • Happens
  • Simply

• Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Look

• I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mystery
  • Novels
  • Dramas

• Entrepreneurs have only the murkiest picture of the future in which they are making their bets, and also there is ambiguity: they don't know when they push this lever or that lever that the outcome is going to be what they think it is going to be - there is the law of unanticipated consequences.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Future
  • Law
  • Picture

• Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Taxes
  • Consequences

• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Funny
  • Happens
  • Canada

• I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Read
  • Novels
  • RAND

• I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Reality
  • Understand
  • Novels

• No, I don't have a plan. Whatever happens happens. There's never a plan.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Happens
  • Plan
  • Whatever

• Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Find
  • Happens
  • Tomorrow

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

  

  Tommy Bolin
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  

  Eva Green
  • Actors
  • Singers
  • Pay Attention

• I have a bag and shoe addiction. If I were a doctor or a lawyer, I'd still have it.

  

  Eva Chen
  • Lawyer
  • Addiction
  • Doctor

• Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Color
  • Cutting
  • Modern

• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

  

  Stieg Larsson
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