12 Samantha Harvey Quotes for You to Enjoy

Samantha Harvey

English Author

Born: 1975

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There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do. Samantha Harvey

You Yourself Word Job Right Word Ways Those Easier Some About Give Constraints More Boundaries Know Because Within Makes Go Maybe Just Formal Story Much Your Fun Many Play Right

I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge. Samantha Harvey

Knowledge Live Think Difficulty Assumptions Secondhand Because Surface Lot Up Often Just Ends Us Function Level

With twenty six letters, you can create anything you like - any person, any world, any place, any emotion. And they are so potent, so powerful, and at the same time, they're marks on the page, and that's all. There's nothing else to them. Samantha Harvey

Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships. Samantha Harvey

Morning Nurturing Men Relationships About Perceptions Bags Periods Female Friendships Discussing Common Children Mild Agreeing Soft

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past. Samantha Harvey

Alone Man Long Lost Past Distance Silences About Unsettling Most Without Narrative His Middle Which Grip Staring Things Monologue

Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration. Samantha Harvey

World Own Right One Logic Internal Right Strengthens Monologues

Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet. Samantha Harvey

Best Communicate Old Slow Gone Down Considered Seem Self Instant Almost Performance Make Sort Robust Text Itself Anything Place Anywhere Lengthy Ground Tweet Letter Monologue Monologues

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. Samantha Harvey

Song Tricks Tried Construct Narrative Traditional Very

When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill. Samantha Harvey

Love Freedom Free Fall Our Ours Mutual Thrill Could Volition Part Feel Know Because Leave Person

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