Joel Dicker Quotes

I began to understand that glory was a Gorgon who could turn you to stone if you failed to continue to perform

Victory is within you. All you need is to want to let it out.

IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are those who manage to build love. Because there is no greater or more difficult undertaking.

They tipped over. A light went on in the house, and Harry

Marcus, do you know what is the only way to know how much you love someone?
No.
By losing them.

LEARN TO LOVE YOUR failures, Marcus, because it is your failures that will make you who you are. It is your failures that will give meaning to your victories.

You have the moral courage to run a long way, in the rain, in the cold, if you have the strength to keep going until the end, to give it all you have and to reach your goal, then you're capable of writing a book. Never let fear or fatigue stop you. On the contrary: You should use them to help you keep going.

Lesson number two: Not only is glory ephemeral, but it also comes at a price. The

You know what a publisher is? He's a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he's able to appropriate other people's talents.

Maybe that's what love is: hoping that one day things will be better.

Because writing gave meaning to my life. In case you haven't noticed, life generally

Whenever she wasn't with me, there was an emptiness inside me, a feeling that something was missing, which I had never experienced before - as if, once she had entered my life, the world could no longer turn properly without her.

Cherish love, Marcus. Make it your greatest conquest, your sole ambition. After men, there will be other men. After books, there will be other books. After glory, there will be other glories. After money, there will be yet more money. But after love, Marcus, after love, there is nothing but the salt from tears.

Don't write in the name of friendship. Write because it's the only way to make this tiny, insignificant thing we call life into a legitimate and rewarding experience

Nobody knows he's a writer. It's other people who tell you.

Find love, Marcus. Love gives life its meaning. You're stronger when you love. You're bigger. You go further.

Two things can make life meaningful: books and love ... I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

Don't worry about genius - just keep churning out the words. Genius comes naturally.

How does one become a writer, Harry?
By never giving up. You know, Marcus, that freedom-the desire for freedom-is a war in itself. We live in a society of defeated office workers, and to get ourselves out of this fix, we must fight-against ourselves and against the whole world. Freedom is a constant battle of which we are barely even aware. I will never give up.

No matter where you go, your problems go with you.

Life generally doesn't have any meaning - unless you strive, every God-given day, to provide it with some.

Writer's heaven is the place where you decide to rewrite your life the way you wish you had lived it. Because a writer's power, Marcus, is that he gets to decide the ending of the book. He has power over life and death; he has the power to change everything. Writers have more power in their fingertips than they imagine. All they have to do is close their eyes and they can change an entire lifetime. What might

Love, love, always love! But what is love? It doesn't mean anything! Love is just a trick invented by men so they don't have to do their own laundry!

Wish that I will succeed in life, I replied. And I thought that a shooting star, though it could be beautiful, was a star that was afraid of shining and was fleeing as far away as possible. A bit like me.

Love can hurt so much. All the same, you should not be afraid of falling, and especially not of falling in love, because love is also very beautiful.

Because you have to keep them on tenterhooks until the end. It's like when you're playing cards: you have to hold a few trump cards for the final part of the game.

Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful:

That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.

I don't know whether it's that writers are lonely or whether it's loneliness that makes them write