Quotes by Norwegian authors
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
Former Prime Minister of Norway
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
Per Petterson
Norwegian novelist
I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.
Kygo
Norwegian DJ
Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.
Kygo
Norwegian DJ
You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.
Ivar Giaever
Norwegian-American engineer
I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that Sony was the right place to do it. They knew what I wanted to make and gave me the freedom to express myself.
Kygo
Norwegian DJ
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
Magnus Carlsen
Norwegian chess grandmaster
The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.
Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter
I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian psychologist
When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Norwegian football manager
I love all kinds of insects, and I've heard Australia has some really interesting bugs.
Aurora
Norwegian singer-songwriter
The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.
Kygo
Norwegian DJ
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
Jo Nesbo
Norwegian writer
I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.
Kygo
Norwegian DJ
We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
Morten Harket
Norwegian singer
I've been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It's a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.
Aurora
Norwegian singer-songwriter
I don't see myself directing the same movie twice.
Morten Tyldum
Norwegian film director
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
Olav Thon
Norwegian real estate developer
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
Norwegian writer
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