Quotes by Scarlett Thomas

About Scarlett Thomas:

Scarlett Thomas is an English postmodernist author. She has written eight novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent.
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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 cybernet...

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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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Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

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Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, but they usually don't last that long. They're more l...

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Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

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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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If something wants to be a story, it will be.

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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 uncerta...

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

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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

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Not all events are stories.

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Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

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I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as fait...

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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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Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

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Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

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In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in...

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It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

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I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

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Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

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Author Bio

  • NameScarlett Thomas
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • Born1972
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters
  • WorksThe End Of Mr. Y; PopCo