Quotes from Karin Fossum

När hjulet kom, gick allting på tok för fort för oss.

But society is going to fall apart if we stop reporting crime.

From the outside everything looks fine," the dentist said, "but it's rotten to the core.

Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki (Wie de wolf vreest)

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.