Quotes by Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of – the end of the world – and I knew I would go there one day.

Exotic Places

One Day

World

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

Believe

People

Shoes

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.

Believe

Book

Writing

An oppressed people will always rise.

Oppressed

People

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

Believe

Hate

Lying

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

Country

Leaving

Running

Certainly, I know what it’s like to be obsessed. I haven’t always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn’t always there. But, you know, that’s not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem… Maybe.

Children

Mean

Problem

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone’s best friend.

Believe

Children

Enemy

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Dream

Opportunity

Reality

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

Beautiful

Finals

Leaving

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Able

Abyss

Agony

Animal

Answers

Arguing

Army

Art

Awful

Beautiful

Believe

Bird

Book

Brain

Branches

Burden

Childhood

Children

Cities

Clothes

Coffee

Country

Cyberspace

Deeds

Details

Different

Doe

Dream

Earth

Enemy

Europe

Evil

Exotic Places

Expression

Facts

Father

Feelings

Feet

Finals

Form

Girl

Giving

Giving Up

Goodbye

Greek

Groups

Growing Up

Grows

Hate

Historical

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Quotes by Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell

Africa was the most exotic place I could conceive of – the end of the world – and I knew I would go there one day.

Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement.

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.

An oppressed people will always rise.

As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country.

Certainly, I know what it’s like to be obsessed. I haven’t always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn’t always there. But, you know, that’s not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem… Maybe.

Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone’s best friend.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

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