Quotes by : Scarlett Thomas

Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war....

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

Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that....

...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.

One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal'....

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using....

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Patrick opens his arms about three feet wide and, with one finger pointing up on each hand, tries to....

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

I hate the honesty of the moring the time before your consiousness switches on the light and gets rid....