Karin Fossum Quotes

#1. If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Karin Fossum

#2. For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created.

Freeman Dyson

#3. If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

Karin Fossum

#4. You can't compare one person's coping capacity to another, hon.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Karin Fossum

#6. I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

Karin Fossum

#7. Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

Karin Fossum

#8. Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Karin Fossum

#9. I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

Karin Fossum

#10. I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots ... so I have to do something else.

Karin Fossum

#11. I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Karin Fossum

#12. I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.

Aaron Eckhart

#13. There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#14. You," she managed to say hoarsely," are a very bad kitty cat.

Nalini Singh

#15. Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

Karin Fossum