Hakan Nesser Quotes
While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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The sad thing is that apparently if you want to become the next Premier or the leader, suddenly you've got to shut down your human side.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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With writing, I love doing it, but there's that love-hate relationship: You're not having a good run, you've hit a wall; it's frustrating.
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People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.
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They obviously like to have wood fiber at a reasonable rate to build theirhomes, to achieve their dreams in terms of housing. But they also like themultiple use of the Forest Service.
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Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.
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The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
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While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excited about what happens next.
