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

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.

We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

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!

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.