We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent..

Death is never very pretty..

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets..

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels..

We wanted to describe society from our left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people ….

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had….

You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild….

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house..

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness..

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Ma….