In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics becau…

- Scarlett Thomas

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

- Scarlett Thomas

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or w…

- Scarlett Thomas

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

- Scarlett Thomas

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood the…

- Scarlett Thomas

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

- Scarlett Thomas

Routine kills creative thought.

- Scarlett Thomas

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

- Scarlett Thomas

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.

- Scarlett Thomas