Camilla Lackberg Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Camilla Lackberg:

People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
~Camilla Lackberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#c1cb31bc

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
~Camilla Lackberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#9f2fd50d

Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
~Camilla Lackberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#0ce54574

In Sweden, we've moved away from the notion that mothers have some magical, special bond with children.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#68585e7b

I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#bd4a5e04

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
~Camilla Lackberg


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#8873dddd

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#d3718313

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#49d2e868

I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#5a522c62

If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#370c3c84

The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#7712ebf8

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
~Camilla Lackberg


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/camilla-lackberg-quotes/#4c51aba2

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