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Jo Nesbø (Norwegian: [ˈjuː ˈnesbøː]; born 29 March 1960) is a Norwegian writer, musician, and former economist and reporter. As of March 2014, more than 3 million copies of his novels have been sold in Norway, and his work has been translated into over 40 languages, selling 30 million copies worldwide.

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In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate. . . But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Movements, Point, Possible, Rocks, Sports, Wall

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

Architecture, Downtown, Fearnley, House, Museums, Water

The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.

Book, Reader, Tempted, Think, Thinking, Writing

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

Fiction, Say, Thinking, True, Write, Writing

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.

Bookstores, Crime Novels, Kiosks, Novel, Serious

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

Clean, Individual, Like, Love, Steam

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

Crime, Feels, Larsson, Related, Writers

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

Country, Culture, History, Place, Reading

When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [. . . ] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.

Artist, Good, Jobs, People, Question

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Driver, Drivers, Taxi, Too Much, Twice

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.

Clear, Novel, Nowhere, Stories, Trying, Writing

Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

Degree, Degrees, Desirable, Looks, Relative, Sick

We're prisioners of. . . things. Of who we are.

Prisioners, Things, Who We Are

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

Absence, Evil, Opposites, Thing, Void

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

Afraid, Crime, Guard, Saws, Time, Venezuela

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Dark, Nature, Scandinavians, Secret, Secrets, Talk

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

Censorship, Ideas, Kind, Mind, Morning, Work

. . . he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Loneliest, Piano, Record, Sitting, Sound

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

American, Crime, Influence, Reader, Writing

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.

Came, Inspiration, Reason, Sudden

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