Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character. — 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 truck or something when I get out of school. Join the army or something simple. I'm sure in the army they're all going to be wondering what an acute angle is. I'm sure I'll make lots… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share
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 lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on,… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share
“I descended to the ocean floor and encountered bloated, symmetrical creatures with pumping white hearts and translucent skin. Collapsed blue civilizations lived down there, fissured and antiseptic, craggy with barnacles and blistering rust. I reached into the heart of the earth, the sky, the moon. I colonized language, mathematics, schemes of chemical order and atomic weight. I studied the manufacture… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share
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 grow up.' You already have.' I want to grow down. I want to bury myself in the hard earth. I want to root myself there like a dead tree. I want to entangle myself in the… — Scott Bradfield Copy Share
“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
