Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters… — Scott Westerfeld Around Copy Share Image
“Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.” — Scott Westerfeld Deryn-sharp Copy Share Image
That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both. — Scott Westerfeld Beautiful Copy Share Image
I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are… — Scott Westerfeld Any Copy Share Image
“I'm a girl." When Deryn opened her eyes, the lady boffin was staring at her with no change of expression. "Indeed," she… — Scott Westerfeld Certainty Copy Share Image
“Deryn had been there every step of the way. “We are connected, aren’t we?” “Aye,” she said, still chewing. “And for us… — Scott Westerfeld Every step Copy Share Image
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. — Scott Westerfeld Endangered species Copy Share Image
“He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay." "I can see how that's… — Scott Westerfeld Brood Copy Share Image
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. — Scott Westerfeld Complicated Copy Share Image
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or… — Scott Westerfeld Cents Copy Share Image
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it. — Scott Westerfeld Believe Copy Share Image
And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight? — Scott Westerfeld America Copy Share Image
“She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself,… — Scott Westerfeld Choke Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival. — Scott Westerfeld Books Copy Share Image
What about a hoverboard?" "It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those… — Scott Westerfeld Drs Copy Share Image
I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow. — Scott Westerfeld Fellow Copy Share Image
“Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms. “Deryn” he… — Scott Westerfeld Broken glass Copy Share Image
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at… — Scott Westerfeld Belief Copy Share Image
Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them… — Scott Westerfeld Blood Copy Share Image
