“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
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
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
“Catching my breath. I watch them go. I watch them disregard gravity, the ground, and the distance between us. And though an… — Samantha Hunt 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
“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
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
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
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
“It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely.” — Samantha Hunt 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
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
“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
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
“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
I live with deer and coyotes. Lyme ticks are a daily concern and mystery, but, yes, what do they mean? I don't… — Samantha Hunt Abundance 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
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
“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
