If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

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.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

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.

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.