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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• Scarlett Thomas:

  My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic

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  It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way cou

• Scarlett Thomas:

  I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche.

• Scarlett Thomas:

  Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.

• Scarlett Thomas:

  I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina a

• Scarlett Thomas:

  One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

• Scipio Africanus:

  I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

• Scipio Africanus:

  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

• Scott Alexander:

  All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from

• Scott Alexander:

  The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.