Samantha Harvey Quotes

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

Quotes to Explore

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith
- People
- Great
- Book
It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Business
- Strong
- Small
There's a lot more to me than just power.

Canelo Alvarez
- Power
- Me
- More
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Rachel Cusk
- Think
- Society
- Black
I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

Carlene Carter
- People
- Life
- Thinking
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

Nathan Myhrvold
- Time
- Powerful
- Computers