My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I’ve always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I’m just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson’s books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
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. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I’m a strange kind of author – I like assignments. I wasn’t clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she’s my kind of girl. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don’t care if I’m highbrow or not anymore. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
