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There’s Only One Thing Worse Than Not Satisfying A Desire. And That Is Not To Feel Any Desire.

What We Humans Think We Know Is Nothing Compared To What We Need To Believe To Numb The Fear And Pain.

Until The Eighties, Oslo Was A Rather Boring Town, But It's Changed A Lot, And Is Now Much More Cosmopolitan. If I Go Downtown, I Visit The Harbour To See The Tall Ships And The Ferries, And To Admire The Modern Architecture Such As The Opera House Or The New Astrup Fearnley Museum On The Water's Edge.

Many Scandinavian Writers Who Had Made Their Name In Literary Fiction Felt They Wanted To Have A Go At The Crime Novel To Show They Could Compete With The Best. If Salman Rushdie Had Been Norwegian, He Would Definitely Have Written At Least One Thriller.

I'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.