Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
Adam D'Angelo -
Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
Oliver North -
A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.
Harold Ramis -
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card -
Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.
Nancy O'Dell -
Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour -
The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
Harold H. Greene -
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
J. A. Konrath -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
Garth Nix -
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
R. L. Stine -
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
Nana Mouskouri -
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Tariq Ali -
If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
Oliver Stone
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde -
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.
George Bernard Shaw -
Non-aqueous solutions don't conduct.
Wolfgang Ostwald -
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
Rod Stewart -
I like to think my accent isn't strong enough, but it's funny: I get people coming up to me in America and saying I sound like Mel B. She's from Leeds. They just hear a British accent and probably can't quite work it out.
Rachel Shenton -
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
Scott Westerfeld