All Scott Westerfeld Quotes
- We don't always get to choose what we love. Always Get
- Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. Always Someone
- A little drama wins more friends than boring. 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,… All
- Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies. Band
- 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… Down
- 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… All
- I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. All
- Hard work's a good distraction. Distraction
- Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began. Began
- Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. 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… All
- 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… Blobjects
- 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… Big
- Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?" Ask
- The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. Emotion
- you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to Dont
- 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… Apart
- I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood Hurt
- 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… Bio