Scarlett Thomas Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

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  Writing, Together, Gathering

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• I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

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  Hate, Stereotype, Cliche

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• Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

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  Honesty, Authenticity, Bigs

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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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  Real, Book, Ideas

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.134, Canongate Books

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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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  Animal, Dangerous World, People

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.6, Canongate Books

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

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  Needs, Problem, Beginning Writers

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories”, p.215, Canongate Books

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

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  Real, Mean, Stuff Happens

  Scarlett Thomas (2012). “Going Out”, p.20, Canongate Books

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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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  Sometimes, Grownups

  Scarlett Thomas (2009). “PopCo”, p.97, Canongate Books

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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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  Girl, Reading, Writing

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• I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

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  Reality, Life Is Like, Stories

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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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  Way, Metaphor, Mathematics

  Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.26, Canongate Books

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