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“Not all events are stories.”
“Routine kills creative thought.”
“Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.”
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
“...'being published is not the same as being a real writer.”
“...'being published’ is not the same as being a real writer.”
“Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfor...”
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
“But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.”
“Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.”
“But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.”
“I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.”
“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a bo...”
“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”
“Child, all books are magic. Just think,' he said, 'about what books make people do. People go to war on the basis of what they read in books. They believe in "facts" just because they are written d...”
“Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.”
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.”
“I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past ...”
“What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.”
“People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.”
“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, ...”
