"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,"

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Source : "Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

Samantha Shannon

#Writing Quotes #Doors Quotes #Desperate Quotes

“He would forget everybody's name, so everybody was called 'Pops'.”
“Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatableâ€¦ More briefly â€“ a word is translatable, its sound is not.”
“I just like ladies who have class... just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that's sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion”
“Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.”
“Of course climate change is real.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
“She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.”
“Happiness is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes. If you find it, please, don't take it for granted. If you Happen to stray from it, don't let negative obstacles overcome you. Anger and rage only detour you from your final objectives. The future holds nothing but opportunity, and good things happen to good people I promise”

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