David Lagercrantz

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.

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These are some quotes by Swedish author David Lagercrantz Journalist, who was born on September 4, 1962.

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A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

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There is no money in the world that would compensate me for writing a lousy book.

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I was so obsessed by Lisbeth Salander and all the characters, but of course if you're going to write a crime novel worthy of Stieg Larsson, you need a plot, don't you?

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