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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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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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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I love writing songs.
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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 wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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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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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'
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As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.
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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.
