Phrase by 'Henning Mankell'
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When you are around 60, there are certain things that are completely terrifying. One of them is that you have made the wrong choices in life, and now it's too late to do anything about them.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterLife , You , Choices , Late
I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterLove , You , Hell , Character
Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterPeople , Think , Live , Society
Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterYou , Me , Children , Problem
When I was a very young author, I knew I needed to build myself a tower outside of Europe. Like when you're a hunter, and build towers to watch the animals move. I knew I would never understand the world without that perspective. I came to Africa for that rational reason, although I love Mozambique now.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterLove , You , Myself , Perspective
I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterMe , Being , Words , I Can
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterLife , Myself , Best , Mother
Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterPeople , Believe , Achievement , Shoes
Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and dream just like we do. That's not to say there are not a hell of a lot of problems in Africa. But there is also another side to that story.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterLove , Live , Problems , Hell
Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.
Author: Henning Mankell - Swedish WriterAbout , Seen , Historical , Kingdom
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