Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
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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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Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
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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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I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.
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However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
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She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.
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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)
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Maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore
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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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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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Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
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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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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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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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A little drama wins more friends than boring.
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Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.
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Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.
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Fuzzy Tally is no more.
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You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane