I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
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… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“I drove out of Dartmouth and after a while Start Bay emerged out of the brightening gloom like the end of a… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Someone who has the delusion Glass, is made of, does not literally believe herself to be made of glass but rather feels fragile and… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis of what… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“My mind now has a celebration party and a funeral going on in the same room.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
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… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“Even if you did drop into someone's consciousness, you'd have all their memories and desires and hang-ups right there in front of you. And… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“They really do have nothing in common on paper, these people and him. But yet there are so many common reference points; even some… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world,… — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share
