I do not know what I can do for this world but I will not let any harm come to you Samantha Shannon More Quotes by Samantha Shannon More Quotes From Samantha Shannon 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 child think imagination way 'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.' Samantha Shannon like little-brother brother sex I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.' Samantha Shannon day me you dedication I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything. Samantha Shannon good think you people I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree. Samantha Shannon down think know book I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered. Samantha Shannon i-am marriage dad family People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays. Samantha Shannon feel you people world It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time. Samantha Shannon only strange time world I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world. Samantha Shannon i-am brain world thinking I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it. Samantha Shannon head everyone pleasure world I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller. Samantha Shannon i-am new big new-york 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 story like women young Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?' Samantha Shannon wrong new think me 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 never know experience reading I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves. Samantha Shannon places look fantasy kind I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a private school for girls, leaving at sixteen to work. That was in the year 2056. AS 127, if you use the Scion calendar. Samantha Shannon calendar you work school I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel. Samantha Shannon hacker feel myself mind My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin. Samantha Shannon skin me distance body London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. Samantha Shannon good hope death history For me, just being published feels like success. Samantha Shannon being like me success
