“I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border.” — Samantha Hunt Small town Copy Share Image
“a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.” — Samantha Hunt Dreams Copy Share Image
“People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.” — Samantha Hunt Right way Copy Share Image
“It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely.” — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. — Samantha Hunt Building Copy Share Image
“A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.” — Samantha Hunt Language Copy Share Image
The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it. — Samantha Hunt Dark Copy Share Image
I am surprisingly optimistic, though lately that's been hard to maintain. Art and slow, small, close gestures help remind me of my… — Samantha Hunt Art Copy Share Image
My father thought a novel was a broken short story. There's something to that. Many of my favorite novels are novellas. The… — Samantha Hunt Books Copy Share Image
“There isn't any point to it. I'm not getting anywhere. No start, middle, or end. The children scream and I scream, and… — Samantha Hunt Children Copy Share Image
“When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what… — Samantha Hunt Business Copy Share Image
I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything… — Samantha Hunt Crushed Copy Share Image
I am a toggler. I always have three or four projects going, short stories alongside novels and essays. When one project is… — Samantha Hunt Books Copy Share Image
“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a… — Samantha Hunt Fragility Copy Share Image
“I've been forgotten here. Left alone talking to lightning storms, studying the mysterious patterns the dust of dead people makes as it… — Samantha Hunt Dead people Copy Share Image
I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted… — Samantha Hunt Book Copy Share Image
Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't… — Samantha Hunt Awake Copy Share Image
One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People"… — Samantha Hunt Book Copy Share Image
As a teenager and into my early twenties I lived in a geodesic dome on a mountain. No running water, no phone,… — Samantha Hunt Beautiful Copy Share Image
One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting… — Samantha Hunt Book Copy Share Image
I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy… — Samantha Hunt Birth Copy Share Image
Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome… — Samantha Hunt Cinema Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important to our survival, nothing more dignified than learning how to take care of others, how to serve… — Samantha Hunt Acknowledge Copy Share Image
“I don't think you'll believe what I found," he says. "A word, razbliuto. We don't have a word to match it but… — Samantha Hunt Dirty water Copy Share Image
“You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those… — Samantha Hunt Dirty water Copy Share Image
The lion's share of my work is revision, 85%? I revise forever, combing over lines, listening and listening to them in different… — Samantha Hunt Different Copy Share Image
When I was learning to write I was surrounded by poets; Brian Blanchfield and Annie Guthrie were always with me as I… — Samantha Hunt Annie Copy Share Image
There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often… — Samantha Hunt Family Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I am the youngest of six children. I listen; I observe. I'm camouflaged as a moth. Mothers… — Samantha Hunt Children Copy Share Image
There's definitely a voice and I always speak my work aloud. I have a lot of old people in my head, most… — Samantha Hunt Grandparent Copy Share Image
Much of the writing I do about the female body is to remind women, myself included, that they make life and they… — Samantha Hunt Death Copy Share Image
“He gave me an inside of ice so I'd never love you. But it didn't work. You are so close. You are… — Samantha Hunt Love Copy Share Image
“Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don’t feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs… — Samantha Hunt Every day Copy Share Image
“Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an… — Samantha Hunt Feeling Copy Share Image
Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they… — Samantha Hunt Birth Copy Share Image
John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr.… — Samantha Hunt Death Copy Share Image
“Unlock the door?' he asks. This family is an experiment, the biggest I've ever been part of, an experiment called: How do… — Samantha Hunt Definition of love Copy Share Image
I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my… — Samantha Hunt Children Copy Share Image
