Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.
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She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.
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We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in.
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.
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So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris
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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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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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My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly
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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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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
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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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The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
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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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the parties are no fun until everyone gets drunk
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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
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Her only way home was to betray her friend.
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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.
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The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
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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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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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It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.