Henning Mankell Quotes.

1. "Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening."
- Quote by Henning Mankell

2. "The stories I create are never as awful as reality."
- Quote by Henning Mankell

3. "I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author." [As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website.]"
- Quote by Henning Mankell

4. "You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow."
- Quote by Henning Mankell

5. "Things are as they are."
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6. "What scared him more than anything else was an old age spent simply waiting to die, a time when nothing of what had been his life was still possible."
- Quote by Henning Mankell

7. "New love might replace an earlier love, but the old love is always there, no matter what. You live your life on two levels, probably to avoid falling through without a trace if a hole appears in one of them."
- Quote by Henning Mankell

8. "Having the possibility to make decisions about what to do with one’s life is a great privilege. As far as most people on this planet are concerned, life is simply about survival."
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9. "Forse diventare adulto significa rendersi conto della propria solitudine"
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10. "Africa was a place of yearning to me even. As a child, whenever I watched the logs swim down the Ljusnan towards the ocean, I imagined they were crocodiles. This is the luxury of childhood — children trust their fantasy unconditionally. In school, reality becomes more important. If, later in your life, you decide to become an artist, you have to regain this lost skill. At least that is how it was for me. A few years ago I was in Sveg again — and you know what? I could still see the crocodiles."
- Quote by Henning Mankell