Henning Mankell Quotes - Page 3

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• I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

  Henning Mankell

  Reader

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• I think my Wallander stories give a fairly good image of the world in the 1990s. I don't regret anything about that - on the contrary!

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  Regret, Thinking, Giving

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• I came to Mozambique in 1986, when I first became involved with Teatro Avenida - a theatre company that stages plays concerned with political and social issues.

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  Play, Issues, Political

  "Henning Mankell's Mozambique". www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

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  Historical, Would Be, Kingdoms

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty.

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  Dream, Expression, Clothes

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Dec 28, 2012

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• 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.

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  Moving, Animal, Europe

  "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

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• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

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  Children, Father, Book

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• We used to send whole flocks of birds shooting out of our mouths and never managed to grab them by their wings.

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  Wings, Bird, Shooting

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• For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

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  Children, Widows And Orphans, Political

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• I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

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  Different, Awful, Way

  "A life in writing: Henning Mankell" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.

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  Cities, Organization, Village

  Henning Mankell (2011). “The Dogs of Rig: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of - the end of the world - and I knew I would go there one day.

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  One Day, Exotic Places, World

  "True crime" by Ian Thomson, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2003.

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