Samantha Shannon Quotes

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 8, 1991

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I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

Jennifer McMahon

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You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how do you do that?

Andrew Shaffer

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Audiences in mainland China know how to discuss movies.

Andrew Lau

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Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

Rob Gronkowski

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Incarceration rates, especially black incarceration rates, have soared regardless of whether crime is going up or down in any given community or the nation as a whole.

Michelle Alexander

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'Night of the Living Dead' is one of my favorites.

Michael Rooker

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One of the things I found is that no matter where in the country - poor communities, rich communities - everybody deals with very similar issues of bullying. It's pretty widespread.

Jay Asher

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Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.

Allu Arjun

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We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

Alice Dreger

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War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

Peter Diamandis

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