Mankell Novels Quotes & Sayings

The ability of extension lies in responsibility — Sunday Adelaja

Novels are ... an unsurpassed form to understand people. — Henning Mankell

Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't know,' and you go home and do it. He's the most articulate nonverbal person in the world. He doesn't say a word, and you know exactly what it means. — Caroline Thompson

Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him. — Jennifer Grant

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. — Jimmy Hoffa

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle. — Sheila Applegate

I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life. — Shane Carruth

Millionaire don't compare but prepare what they seek. — Dee Dee Artner

But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31 — Gordon S. Wood

But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it. — William Shakespeare

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer. — Henning Mankell

When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it. — Eminem

This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written — Ronald Fisher

Get a sales tax, small on necessities and large on luxuries; then a stiff inheritance tax on the fellow that saves and don't spend. That will get him either way. A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke. — Will Rogers

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy? — Hanif Kureishi

The prosecution responsible for the many discrepancies in their work must be made to answer for them, for Raffaele's sake, my sake and most especially for the sake of Meredith's family. Our hearts go out to them. No matter what happens, my family and I will face this continuing legal battle as we always have, confident in the truth and with our heads held high in the face of wrongful accusations and unreasonable adversity. — Amanda Knox

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book. — Henning Mankell

Golf will grow so long as it's fun. — Tom Watson