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I Think My Heart Is Quite Selfish. If I Followed My Heart, I Would Not Be A Good Person. But I Have Moral Principles. I Have To Sit Down And Reflect.

I Tell Myself I Write Because I Want To Say Something True And Original About The Nature Of Evil. That Is Very Ambitious - To Say Something About The Human Condition That Hasn't Been Written Before. Probably I Will Never Succeed But That Is What I Strive To Do.

Thanks To The Success Of Henning Mankell And Peter Hoeg, There Wasn't The Same Stigma Attached To Writing Genre Thrillers In Scandinavia As There Was In Many Other Cultures. Quite The Opposite, In Fact.

Not Even The Brightest Future Can Make Up For The Fact That No Roads Lead Back To What Came Before - To The Innocence Of Childhood Or The First Time We Fell In Love.

But Perhaps That's Why We Take Snaps...to Provide False Evidence To Underpin The False Claim That We Were Happy. Because The Thought That We Weren't Happy At Least For Some Time During Our Lives Is Unbearable. Adults Order Children To Smile In The Photos, Involve Them In The Lie, So We Smile, We Feign Happiness.