I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me mor…

- Samantha Shannon

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take m…

- Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and…

- Samantha Shannon

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

- Samantha Shannon

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

- Samantha Shannon

I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

- Samantha Shannon

They'd branded me like some kind of animal. Lower than an animal. A number.

- Samantha Shannon

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

- Samantha Shannon

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

- Samantha Shannon