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
chapters pictures wrote
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.
scene
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
dating difference romance writer
The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.
york
I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.
mostly narrative ninety people percent smart stuff talking until
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
loving-someone lost
Maybe that was the price of loving someone: You lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.
fuzzy
Fuzzy Tally is no more.
love
We don't always get to choose what we love.
summer cat sky
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
smart eye use
Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay said quietly, "David's never had any surge at all. But I wouldn't use the word ugly...Tally might eat you.
noble deeds chaos
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
falling-in-love cities helping
You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane
fiddle cried
You fiddle lucker!' she cried.
complicated consistent one-thing
At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.