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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
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
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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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But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.
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I kissed him once, she whispered. Well done. What did he do? Um... Deryn sighed. He woke up.
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If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.
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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 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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History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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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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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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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.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
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You're insane! she shouted. Pretty cool, huh? No!Tally yelled. Why didn't you tell me it was broken? Shay shrugged. More fun that way? More fun? Her heart beating fast,her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy. Well, kind of. But you suck!
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.
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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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And you know, these things don't last forever.' I know, Mandy. Nothing does.' That's the spirit.
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Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
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you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
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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.
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