Intuition is just the sum of all your experience. The way I see it, everything youโve experienced, everything you know, you think you know and didnโt know you knew is there in your subconscious lying dormant, as it were. As a rule you donโt notice the sleeping creature, itโs just there, snoring and absorbing new things, right. But now and then it blinks, stretches and tells you, hey, Iโve seen this picture before. And tells you where in the picture things belong.
Jo NesboI'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.
Jo NesboI wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
Jo NesboEver 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.
Jo NesboA horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.
Jo Nesbo