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I write best when I sort of collide myself with another man. So I think, I hope, that a combination of me and Stieg Larsson will create something good.

I know I don't want to be Stieg Larsson my whole life.

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

I think with every writer there are two people there.

Obviously, my name is known now, but I don't think people generally tend to recognize authors very much. People like J. K. Rowling maybe, Gillian Flynn might be recognized, but I reckon she could walk by me on the street, and I wouldn't know who she was.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I said from the start I had to be trustful of the Millennium universe. It was not going to be a Stieg Larsson book, but my interpretation of his iconic characters and universe.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.