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 More Quotes by Linn Ullmann More Quotes From Linn Ullmann Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. Linn Ullmann roles writing way 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 writing song father When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. Linn Ullmann writing