“We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night won...” — Maj Sjowall Quote

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

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

“We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.”

“I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.”

“Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it's to keep alive, it's to keep awake, it's to keep watching, it's to keep feeling, it's to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.”

“I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.”