Scarlett Thomas Thinking Quotations

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.