Linn Ullmann quotes

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
-- Linn Ullmann

#Writing #Roles #Way

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.
-- Linn Ullmann

#Symbolism #Order #Perspective

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?
-- Linn Ullmann

#Song #Father #Writing

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.
-- Linn Ullmann

#Writing

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

I love playing odd roles.

Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,

I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.