“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.” — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“I try to tell the teacher, you know. I don't give a fuck about geometry or English. Like I'm probably going to drive a… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“I descended to the ocean floor and encountered bloated, symmetrical creatures with pumping white hearts and translucent skin. Collapsed blue civilizations lived down there,… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy -… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“We all like to think we'll grow up,' Beatrice said. 'History's the one dream we all try and dream together.' I don't want to… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“take words and make them useful,' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
“Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.” — Scott Bradfield Copy Share Image
