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Top 15 Samantha Harvey Quotes (2025 Update)

Samantha Harvey Quote: “Why can’t time go backwards as well as forward? If time’s not a river but a circle, and if you can travel round a circle one way or another and end up where you started, why can’t it go this way and that?”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “Nothing had changed since those days except that everything had degraded and two decades of light had beaten the colours back a shade.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “The mind is a prison. And when we write the noise is distilled and alchemised, and the self can find a way out, which I think is what love is – the escape of the self from the self.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “It is not for us to try to change the world to something that suits us better, but for us to change, to bend to a greater weight.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “It reminded me that, for all that you love to call a spade a spade, the spade is always a symbol for something else.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “How do you tell the difference between a person made of flesh and one made of words?”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “This must be grace, to be defeated by one’s better nature.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “You would think that living is a kind of scholarship in time, and that the longer we live the more expert we become at coping with it, in the way that, if you play tennis enough, you get used to coping with faster and faster serves. Instead I find that the longer I live the more bemused I become, and the more impenetrable the subject shows itself to be. I sit on a heap of days.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “This is what writing does to you, it seems, it turns objects that used to be just things in your life into things that must be described, and at the same time makes them feel increasingly indescribable.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “She paused; her speech was ever thus. Spirals of deepening particulars, then pauses when she saw she’d strayed from the point.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “If the mind is a cacophony, the subconscious is silent theatre.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “Poetry can turn phrases that rotate the world, too small a rotation to cause a public commotion but enough to knock a solitary life a fraction off its axis, such that it will never be the same again.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “Writing is lucid dreaming – the work of the subconscious that has a toe in the conscious, just enough to harness the dream’s waywardness. I always heard it said that writing draws on the subconscious, but that isn’t true. It is the subconscious, and it draws on the conscious.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “What an unlikely wonder is life, that it holds in itself the whole wildness of death – those bacteria didn’t come into life at the point of death, they were always there and they always wanted to eat you, and your cells always contained in them the enzymes that would assist your rotting. It was only ever your vehemence to survive that prevented all that. Did you know, were you ever able to detect within, the passionate warfare that kept you here?”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “To write fiction you have to engage in organised fraud, the laundering of experience into the offshore haven of words.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “The night is itself without narrative – the way the hours move, less like a stream flowing somewhere and more like water swilling in a shallow pool, until suddenly the pool is drained and it’s morning.”
Samantha Harvey Quote: “Sleep. Sleep. Like money, you only think about it when you have too little. Then you think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It becomes the prism through which you see the world and nothing can exist except in relation to it.”
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