Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. Linn Ullmann Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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?’ Linn Ullmann Read Quote
