“You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.” — Hallgrimur Helgason Quote

“You can't write my types of books without hurting someone.”

“Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that it creates this great tension between the story being told and the style that it's written in. And it's just amazing that one of the best novels in English was written by a Russian.”

“Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.”

“In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.”

“Most early Icelandic paintings are landscapes.”

“I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.”

“We have this fascination that more is better, and we - what we learned was more isn't better ; that more care can actually hurt you. That fascination with the quick fix is often hurting us. One-third of health-care spending doesn't even improve health care.”

“I'm not like hurting by any means, but I'm not really, you know, let me say, I'm not really cool with doing fighting just to break even.”

“My business is hurting people.”

“You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.”

“Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.”

“No matter whether you're hurting or it's just a precaution, you gotta eat right, make sure that you're protecting your body because 82 games and all those road trips - it's going to be a lot.”