Scarlett Thomas quotes

Routine kills creative thought. (Scarlett Thomas)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If something wants to be a story, it will be. View quote
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I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 novels. View quote
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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? View quote
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