Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
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Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.
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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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We don't always get to choose what we love.
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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, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.
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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.
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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.
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It's not the way Zane looks, David," she said, her voice trembling with anger. "It's because he makes me bubbly, and because we took a lot of risks together. It could just as easily be me lying there, and he would stay with me if it was." "It's just programming!" "No. It's because I love him.
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Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.
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High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.
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Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.
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Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special.
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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.