Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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• We don't always get to choose what we love.
• Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
• A little drama wins more friends than boring.
• The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine,…
• Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
• Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as…
• Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters…
• I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
• Hard work's a good distraction.
• Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
• Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
• I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've…
• I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which…
• I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've…
• Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?"
• The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.
• you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
• Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations…
• I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
• As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way…

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