Karin Fossum quotes
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.”
-- Karin FossumSource : "Murder, they wrote" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2005.
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“I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.”
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“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 FossumSource : Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.”
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“If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.”
-- Karin FossumSource : Karin Fossum (2013). “Broken”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.”
-- Karin FossumSource : Karin Fossum (2007). “When the Devil Holds the Candle”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?”
-- Karin FossumSource : Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House
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“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
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