” I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden. “
” I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. “
” I think about death every day – what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid. “
” I don’t find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do… it doesn’t work. “
” Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that. “
” It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible. “
” Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake. “
” I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don’t want to be laughed at. “
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