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 fallfeelfree share on social
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 distancegriplong Change image and share on social
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us. Samantha Harvey bookburncrime Change image and share on social
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 assumptiondifficultyend Change image and share on social
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 createemotionletter share on social
One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive. Samantha Harvey accessibleaddressbig share on social