31 Quotes by Hallgrimur Helgason

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.

In the Nordic countries, there are hardly any societal problems, but we writers are bloodthirsty people like anyone else, so we have to quench this thirst with literature. If you live in a mafia state with lots of violence on the streets, you tend to write beautiful poetry.

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.