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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I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.
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There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently
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I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
