It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.

I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.