Quotes by : Scarlett Thomas

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

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

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a....

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the....

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately....

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

Routine kills creative thought.

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