Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld
Scott David Westerfeldis an American writer of young adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 May 1963
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Scott Westerfeld quotes about
together earth share
This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!
college class training
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
lips young
You young things are too easily persuaded by the touch of lips.
riding-a-bicycle bears doe
As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)
rude textbooks sitting
A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak.
mistake thinking people
I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.
monday night long
It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
clever eye men
The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?” “Don’t try to be clever, young man.” She narrowed her eyes. “It’s elephants all the way down!
drs policy
I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow
philosophy people degrees
I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.
singing praise horns
But they're already singing our praises!" "They are Americans. They toot their horns for anything.
worry people attention
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.
beautiful princess kissing
there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly
night hands comforting
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.