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Samantha Shannon Quotes

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

Samantha Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Door Writing Feel You Say Never

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

Johnny Carson

Funny Eating Television Frozen Radio

'I Got a Feeling' by the Black Eyed Peas - Reminds me of happy, fun times with my friends and makes me want to jump around.

Summer Sanders

Fun Happy Me Black Friends Jump

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Roger Penrose

Hope Time Problems Thinking Long Go

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

Michael Korda

Revolution Left Oxford Having Fought

I don't set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it's about.

Mitski

More Write Out Something Just Set

At the end of the day, cycling is a business, so we have to be able to offer something to a sponsor, and without exposure, that's going to be difficult, but that's where the UCI perhaps has to be a little bit stronger.

Lizzie Armitstead

Business Day End Of The Day End

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life Ending Be True Inevitable True

A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Joshua Harris

Father God Character Me Reality Us

Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

Don Rickles

Me Crazy Think Die Know Never

Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.

DMX

Father Day Men Holidays Go Get

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

Dee Dee Myers

Family Mother Parents College Me Go

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

Donald Miller

Church Never Pastor Been Staff