Quote

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

Scott Westerfeld

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Looked
Saws
Didn
Matter
Like
Carried

More quotes by Scott Westerfeld

Image
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Let me get this stright, Aya-Chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie? -Frizz mizuno
Scott Westerfeld
Image
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.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady. Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
You look beautiful - David
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I love my virginity to the apocalypse.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
Scott Westerfeld
Image
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
Scott Westerfeld
Image
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
Scott Westerfeld