Lena Andersson Quotes

Sweden, Author
April 18, 1970

Lena Andersson (born 18 April 1970 in Stockholm) is a Swedish author and journalist. She won the August Prize in 2013 for the novel Wilful Disregard. In the same year, the same book, won her the Literature Prize given by the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Also known as Journalist

The main motivation was to explore the empire's falling. I mean 'Duck City' is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

Lena Andersson
- Thinking
- City
- Explore
I need a distance to my characters when I write.

Lena Andersson
- Distance

When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don't need energy anymore.

Lena Andersson
- Mind
- Energy
- Heaven
Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.

Lena Andersson
- Time
- Writing
- Choices