Top 7 Maj Sjöwall Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.”

— Maj Sjöwall

2. “Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.”

— Maj Sjöwall

3. “People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.”

— Maj Sjöwall

4. “I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don’t want to spend time reading bad crime novels.”

— Maj Sjöwall

5. “Death is never very pretty.”

— Maj Sjöwall

6. “We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.”

— Maj Sjöwall

7. “When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.”

— Maj Sjöwall

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