“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
“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
“No. I'm not from outer space or the future. And this is not magic, just science, pure engineering. Magic, religion, the occult… — Samantha Hunt Outer space Copy Share Image
“I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border.” — Samantha Hunt Small town Copy Share Image
As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of… — Samantha Hunt Astronomy 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
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
One night as I girl I spied my grandma and one of her sisters outside, holding hands and singing, "Sprites of the… — Samantha Hunt Boundaries 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
“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'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
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
In writing I found a way to make silence and to be silent. The short story has a lot more silence than… — Samantha Hunt Books 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
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
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
“Arthur takes a seat beside her. The colored lights bounce off his eyeglasses and Louisa loses all interest in time-travel technology. The… — Samantha Hunt Red light 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
“a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.” — Samantha Hunt Dreams 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'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
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
The first time I took my daughters to the ocean - and I love the ocean but where we swim is very… — Samantha Hunt Children 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
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
