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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In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.
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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.
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Faith is the power, obedience the sacrifice, love the means, Christ the reason.
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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.
