Scarlett Thomas Quotes

Scarlett Thomas — English Author born on December 30, 1972,

Scarlett Thomas is an English postmodernist author. She has written eight novels, including The End of Mr. Y and PopCo, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Kent... (wikipedia)

Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

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.

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?

Scarlett Thomas Quotes

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