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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
Scarlett Thomas
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Scarlett Thomas
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
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You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.
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The sky was the colour of sad weddings.
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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 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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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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In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
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What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
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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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Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
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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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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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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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If something wants to be a story, it will be.
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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.
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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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