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Sam Taylor

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January 01, 1970 in Nottinghamshire, The United Kingdom

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http://www.sam-taylor.com/

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Sam Taylor was born in 1970 and grew up in Nottinghamshire. After going to university in Hull and North Carolina, where he read American Studies and wrote a dissertation on Bruce Springsteen and the American Dream, his plan was to travel around southern Europe and write a novel. Instead he accidentally became a journalist for The Observer, where he wrote and edited for eight years.

In 2001 he quit his job and moved, with his wife and young children, to rural southwest France, near the Pyrénées. He is now a full-time writer.

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Books by Sam Taylor

Average rating: 3.19 · 734 ratings · 177 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Amnesiac 3.11 avg rating — 352 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Island At The End Of The World 3.10 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Republic Of Trees 3.35 avg rating — 113 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Body of the World 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	East of Islington. Sam Taylor 1.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Amnesiac 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	La repubblica degli alberi by Sam Taylor, Chiara Brovelli (Traduttore) 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	L'amnésique: Roman by Sam Taylor, Claude Demanuelli (Translator) 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	East of Islington 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Process Industry Reprints 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.”
― Sam Taylor, The Amnesiac

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“Sometimes the feeling would sneak up on me over a number of days: friendliness, tenderness, slowly growing in the hothouse of my introspection, swelling into something more beautiful and dangerous: a kind of euphoric enchantment. Sadly, this state never lasted more than a couple of days. Because pretty soon, hope-that sly, insinuating monster-would creep into my heart.”
― Sam Taylor, Amnesiac

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“Often, I find, it is better to forget what you know, and to believe only what you can see with your own two eyes.”
― Sam Taylor, The Island At The End Of The World

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