Scarlett Thomas Quotes

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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

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But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

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One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

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Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book.... an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.

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I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

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I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.

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I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

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I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

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In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

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Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

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For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

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Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free.... It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators.... What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

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What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

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Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

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