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Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
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He squeezed her hand. Then I'll come get you, wherever you are when it happens. We'll be okay. But what about everybody else? He stared out across the river, nodding slowly. My guess is, everybody else is in big trouble.
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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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I go where the lizards tell me.
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Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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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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He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
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you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
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Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
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The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit. Of course, Tally thought, you’d have to feed your cat only salmon-flavored cat food for a while, to get the pinks right.
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Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
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I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood
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What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.
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it's not called the Rusty Ruins because some guy called Rusty found them.
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Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
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Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.
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Have a little faith in me, Volger. I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
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