Linn Ullmann quotes:

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.

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?

I have the experience of age and suffering.

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.