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From Quotes by Scott Westerfeld
- 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…
- You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed,…
- Haven't you ever known someone rejected by a lover, who, consumed by rage and jealousy, never lets go? They look on from a distance, unseen…
- Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?
- Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in…
- Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our…
- Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.
- Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
- One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas…
- She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her…
- Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into…
- She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and…
- That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you,…
- No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.
- You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because…
- Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
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