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> [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?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/i-began-writing-the-cold-song-in-the-months-following-my-father-s/)

Linn Ullmann

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## More by Linn Ullmann

> [Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/playing-with-different-genres-and-perspectives-and-ways-of-telling/)

Linn Ullmann

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/i-began-writing-the-cold-song-in-the-months-following-my-father-s/)

Linn Ullmann

> [Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/fairy-tales-and-folk-tales-have-always-played-a-role-in-my-writing-in/)

Linn Ullmann

> [When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linn-ullmann/when-you-re-not-writing-you-re-not-doing-anything-else-either-because/)

Linn Ullmann

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