“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Scarlett Thomas Quotes
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The Seed Collectors
“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”
“The storyless story is a vagina with teeth.”
Source: Our Tragic Universe
“Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.”
Source: Our Tragic Universe
“What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: Going Out
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
Source: Going Out
“Routine kills creative thought.”
Source: PopCo
Source: PopCo
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: Our Tragic Universe
Source: Our Tragic Universe
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
Source: Our Tragic Universe
Source: Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.”
Source: Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories
Source: Our Tragic Universe
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”
Source: Going Out