Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
real mean stuff-happens
In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.
animal dangerous-world people
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 comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
eye light horizon
What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
making-love touching together
So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.
lying get-better special
You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them...
mind firsts facts
I erased the thought from my mind, but I couldn't undo the fact that I'd had the thought in the first place.
girl reading writing
One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
way metaphor mathematics
But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.
memories water arguing
Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
writing trying fiction
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
wonder ifs has-beens
I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.
motivation character judging
Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.
creative routine creative-thought
Routine kills creative thought.
poetic mathematical homeopathy
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.