Linn Ullmann Quotes

#1. What I have always loved most in men is imperfection.

Linn Ullmann

#2. One summer morning at sunrise a long time ago
I met a little girl with a book under her arm.
I asked her why she was out so early and
she answered that there were too many books and
far too little time. And there she was absolutely right.

Tove Jansson

#3. I have the experience of age and suffering.

Linn Ullmann

#4. I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

Little Richard

#5. That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Linn Ullmann

#7. I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

Twiggy

#8. Hearing old macho men, our uncles, calling themselves "Bra". Like women underwear.

Zukiswa Wanner

#9. 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

#10. I raced alongside the car but they were too far down the road. Brokenheartedly, I roared out in hopelessness and grief. She was gone.#Ren

Colleen Houck

#11. When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

Linn Ullmann

#12. I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart
callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence.
From the short story What Rough Beast

Michael Hibbard

#13. Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Delta Goodrem

#14. 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

#15. To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them.

Paulo Coelho