Quotes from David Lagercrantz

You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

Ha, no, that it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.

It wasn't just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.

How come all lunatics and murderers are religious these days?

it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less.

we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.

what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

Sometimes things go wrong, no matter how careful you are.

Life often looks its best from a distance.

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

Are you insane?" "Probably, yes," she said. "Empathy deficit disorder. Excessive violence. Something along those lines.

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people. There's a fundamental democratic logic to it.

Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different.

One could inflict abuses on ethnic and other minorities in the name of science and for the good of society and get away with it.

Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,

It is impossible to overestimate how humourless underpaid journalists can be.

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.

Faste is an idiot." "No, Jan, he isn't. He's just …" "What?" "Conservative. He's not someone who falls for the latest feminist fads." "Or for the earliest ones either. He may have just got his head around all that stuff about votes for women.

Wait, Ed. Did you say she?" "You better believe it. Our hacker's a she!

These days you can't do a goddamn thing online without leaving footprints.

He was little more than a hammer with which to beat people over the head, an instrument for

Those who spy on the people end up themselves being spied on by the people.

first you find out the truth. then you take revenge.