Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Linn Ullmann

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Norwegian author Linn Ullmann.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Linn Ullmann

Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.
I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — © Linn Ullmann
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.
I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?
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