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.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

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

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime