You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see… — Scott Spencer Care Copy Share Image
Writers are stewards of the culture. Publishers, librarians, bookstore owners. We're all in this together. To write books that are gripping, important,… — Scott Spencer Alive Copy Share Image
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times. — Scott Spencer Believe Copy Share Image
“I never think of the life I'll miss after I'm dead, or all that I missed before I was born. It's the… — Scott Spencer Life Copy Share Image
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor… — Scott Spencer Home Copy Share Image
“It was the first time I had heard the truth of what happened that afternoon said in a voice that was not… — Scott Spencer First time Copy Share Image
A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke. — Scott Spencer House Copy Share Image
“On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)” — Scott Spencer Love Copy Share Image
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather… — Scott Spencer Dangerous Copy Share Image
“If endless love was a dream, then it was a dream we all shared, even more that we all shared the dream… — Scott Spencer Dreams Copy Share Image
“Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its… — Scott Spencer Anger Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to say it, I truly don’t, but if you’ve gone this far I suppose it’s obvious that what was… — Scott Spencer Last time Copy Share Image
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby,… — Scott Spencer Adulthood Copy Share Image
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking… — Scott Spencer Different ways Copy Share Image
If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader. — Scott Spencer Book Copy Share Image
“From the time I learned to love Jade and was drawn into the life of the Butterfield house, straight through to the… — Scott Spencer Life Copy Share Image
“I'm speaking to you man to man," he said, "not doctor to patient. How much longer can you continue denying yourself? You… — Scott Spencer Patience Copy Share Image
With writing, you really have to have faith. You have to have some sort of confidence that if you keep at it,… — Scott Spencer Confidence Copy Share Image
“Like you and me," said Jade. "How we used to be." "What do you mean? Crazy?" "Living on our own world. Believing… — Scott Spencer Couple Copy Share Image
By the time I was 14, my most burning ambition was to leave my home, leave my neighborhood, leave my city. I… — Scott Spencer Ambition Copy Share Image
As a writer, I try to turn my feelings and experiences into a different form entirely, something that gives me mastery over… — Scott Spencer Feelings Copy Share Image
I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from… — Scott Spencer Chicago Copy Share Image
I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot… — Scott Spencer Being in love Copy Share Image
I try to keep a steady pace with my writing. I have found that super-productive days are usually followed by two and… — Scott Spencer Day Copy Share Image
