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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
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Science Fiction Writer
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Dallas
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Scott David Westerfeld
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Dude, I just watched you climb up a f*cking building!-Lace
Scott Westerfeld
She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.
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Do you love him? Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
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You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.
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One of the most common questions writers are asked is Where do you get your ideas? But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
Scott Westerfeld
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.
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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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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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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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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
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She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.
Scott Westerfeld
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld
They walked with a pedatory grace.... one of them ripped off their hood and said, my name is Tally Youngblood and is a special circumstance.
Scott Westerfeld
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
Scott Westerfeld
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.
Scott Westerfeld
Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
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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's just programming No. It's because I love him
Scott Westerfeld
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
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