Linn Ullmann famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
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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.
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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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When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.
-- Linn Ullmann
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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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.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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I love playing odd roles.
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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,
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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.
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I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.
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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.
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I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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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.
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