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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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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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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There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.
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Every movie I make I find kind of excruciating. I get a lot back from it, but I feel like I'm kind of always working at the edge of my ability. I guess that's what I'm looking for when I go to work. I am trying to become the edge.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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I've gotten into such weird jobs just by word of mouth... Like I didn't try to be an accessory designer, but I had a friend working at the company and I needed a job so that's where I ended up.
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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.
