Top 29 Sjowall Quotes
#1. Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
Jo Nesbo
#2. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Maj Sjowall
#3. that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.
Maj Sjowall
#4. Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.
Maj Sjowall
#5. The corpulent, impotent Petrus casts pubescent girls in skin flicks so low-budget sex, from film to film, takes place "on the same old couch, which occasionally changed covers.
Maj Sjowall
#6. January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.
Maj Sjowall
#8. I mean we might even go to war as to whether we love Coke or Pepsi and our whole identity is wrapped up in that choice. You know, for the Russians they felt that these minor differences between these various sodas was just hyped up and irrelevant.
Sheena Iyengar
#9. We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
#10. I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.
Eric Hutchinson
#11. The highway authorities clearly did not think it worth their while wasting road salt on this useless bit of roadway.
Maj Sjowall
#13. Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager, exalted tone that only American news reporters seem to achieve. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.
Maj Sjowall
#15. I think we understand each other a little better, and that's never a bad thing.
Abigail Hilton
#16. All posthuman meant, literally speaking, was what you were when you weren't human anymore.
James S.A. Corey
#17. People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
Maj Sjowall
#18. There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall
#19. Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
Camilla Lackberg
#20. There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His
Maj Sjowall
#21. No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.
Maj Sjowall
#22. There's a field somewhere
beyond all doubt and wrong doing.
I'll meet you there.
Rumi
#23. Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.
Maj Sjowall
#24. Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall
#25. following the man's uneventful and highly regimented
Maj Sjowall
#26. A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
#27. Weather you scream or mime , im going going to those lips with cream.
Albert Malete
#28. When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
#29. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.
Maj Sjowall
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