Crime Fiction Is A Genre For Writing

We're Capable Of Understanding That Someone Has To Drop An Atomic Bomb On A Town Of Innocent Civilians, But Not That Others Have To Cut Up Prostitutes Who Spread Disease And Moral Depravity In The Slums Of London. Hence We Call The Former Realism And The Latter Madness.

Ever Since I Was In My Teens I Had Plans At One Point In My Life To Write A Novel.

The Nature Of Scandinavians Is That They Don't Talk So Much, There Will Be These Dark Secrets, And Most Things Are Under-communicated.

All My Friends Who Wanted To Write Had Got Nowhere Trying To Write The Great European Novel. So I Deliberately Steered Clear Of That And Set Out To Write Something Story-led.

As A Writer, You Have To Believe You're One Of The Best Writers In The World. To Sit Down Every Day At The Typewriter Filled With Self-doubt Is Not A Good Idea.