Top 36 Quotes by Samantha Shannon

About Samantha Shannon

These are some quotes by British author Samantha Shannon Writer, who was born on November 8, 1991.

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

Samantha Shannon

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card reading, but I don't know if I'd necessarily want to know.

Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Samantha Shannon

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

Samantha Shannon

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again.

Samantha Shannon

J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.

Samantha Shannon

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.

Samantha Shannon

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

Samantha Shannon

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