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.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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Writers are storytellers. So are readers.
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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.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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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.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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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.
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Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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Interestingly, it is often the younger members of the audience who ask the most sophisticated questions.
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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.
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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.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.
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I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.
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Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
