Quotes by : Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas.....

Do you want to know how to write novels? I’ll tell you the secret: start on page one and keep going,....

Even the best cook can’t make chicken soup out of his own feet. There aren’t so terribly many ingredients....

Everybody comes to the library naked. That's why they come here - to dress themselves in books.

Amateur detectives in fiction had always annoyed Ella. They were so unrealistic. She didn’t intend....

Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. “Why doesn’t she....

I would be happy to take credit for all of the wonderful experiences I describe in my novels, but my....

Ella had asked the writer how it felt to see her own works published. Seläntö had smiled sweetly at....

Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.....

Are writers the torchbearers of humanity? It’s a romantic idea, but it’s complete rubbish. We writers....