I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father’s eye from Heaven: ‘Always write quality. It doesn’t matter if you sell; if it’s good, it’s good – if you capture the complexity of life.’ David Lagercrantz Read Quote
Of course I want to be a best seller because I’m in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
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. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I’m always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I’ve written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back – or not. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I’m an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise – then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I’m a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
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. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy. David Lagercrantz Read Quote
