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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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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The Bible is a history book.
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I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.
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I understand you guys know what you want and you stick with it. For me…as long as it’s soulful, and soulful to me is all kinds of music. You have soulful rock, soulful house…you’ve got soul R&B, there’s just so much of it. I don’t want to be pigeonholed into one particular genre. As long as it’s good, that’s what I’m interested in.
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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.
