Maj Sjowall's Profile
Brief about Maj Sjowall: By info that we know Maj Sjowall was born at 1935-09-25. And also Maj Sjowall is Swedish Author.
Some Maj Sjowall's quotes. Goto "Maj Sjowall's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Bad, Good, TimeWe always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Tags: Lie, Money, NightWhen I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Tags: Life, Marriage, MotherSweden 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 been translated into, among others, German.
Tags: Country, Living, SmallThere 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 Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Tags: Books, Both, TelevisionWe 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 read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
Tags: Another, Political, SocietyYou 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. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
Tags: Attitude, Girl, NiceAny deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
Tags: Hatred, Prejudice, TargetI learned more complex ways to manipulate the manipulators, to bring attention to issues about which I felt passionate.
Tags: Attention, Felt, LearnedBut I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.
Tags: Intentions, Learned, MediaIf I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
Tags: Else, Service, SuccessfulIt would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.
Tags: Faith, Life, TimeMost important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
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