When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

Jo Nesbo

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Good police officers are ugly.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.