Scarlett Thomas Quotes
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
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I'm a believer in trusting the director.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be so addicting, but I can sit and watch marathons of it.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
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Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.
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I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
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Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.
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If you're looking to grow your user base, is there a best way to cost-effectively attract valuable users? I'm increasingly convinced the best way is by harnessing a concept called social proof, a relatively untapped gold mine in the age of the social web.
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You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.
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I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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Once I was embraced by gay culture, I finally started to feel I was fitting in. I was understood by those people in a way I had never predicted or courted.
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I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
