78 Quotes by Scarlett Thomas

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

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

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

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.

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

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

Routine kills creative thought.

Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.

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