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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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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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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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.
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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.
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My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.
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I had a lot of issues with the genre, and I probably even had issues with the whole idea of genre. I was coming into it with a certain degree of outsider attitude, and I didn't have a long-term plan. But I think the way it's worked out, it's sort of warped into what I suppose you could say is my own genre. If people like my books, they have some idea of what the next one will be like.
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The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
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I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
