The sense of one’s past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
I made a decision when I started writing ‘All is Song’ to take the compliments I had for ‘The Wilderness’ and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character? Samantha Harvey Read Quote
My sister is my sister regardless – has always been and always will be and has no choice about it. This is a love quite distinct from that of a lover, with whom we fall in love, in part, because they are free and have a choice. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all? Samantha Harvey Read Quote
The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it’s plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
With ‘All Is Song,’ I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
I conceived ‘All Is Song’ as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates’s life. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective. Samantha Harvey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
