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Scarlett Thomas (born July 4, 1972 in Hammersmith) is an English author and creative writing teacher. She has written nine novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and the Worldquake series of children's books.

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I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.

Angry, Giving, Names, Past, Said, Unthinkable

Routine kills creative thought.

Creative, Creative Thought, Kills, Routine, Thought

Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.

Imagine, Anxious, Wells, Everything, Top

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

Believe, Everything, Reason, Wonder

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.

Theoretical Physics, Frustrated, Way, Physics, Back, Novels

The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

Colour, Sad, Sky, Weddings

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.

Fiction, Paradoxes, Truth, Trying, Writing

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

Happens, Mean, Nothing, Real, Structure, Stuff Happens

It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

Meaningful, Meaninglessness, Normal, Question, Way

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

Ifs, Stories, Story, Want

Homeopathy seemed. . . both mathematical and poetic.

Homeopathy, Mathematical, Poetic

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.

Church, Grey, Left, Posters, Realise, Wall

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Eye, Folly, Horizon, Light

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

Grownups, Perhaps, Sometimes, Supervise, Trust

I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.

Fact, Facts, Firsts, Mind, Place, Thought

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

Cliche, Hate, Stereotype, Stereotypes

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

Argue, Arguing, Memories, Memory, Water

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.

Character, Judge, Judging, Looked, Motivation, Understood

For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.

Encouragement, Love, Love Is, Orchids, People, Rare

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

Events, Giving, Make, Meaning, People

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