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
noble deeds chaos
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
life wisdom thinking
Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
summer cat sky
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
book want reader
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
truth lying sometimes
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
sometimes what-you-love
Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.
moving thinking phones
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.
dream fall cutting
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.
cutting eyebrows white
She looked at David closely, and the feeling was still there. She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. And his smile was pretty crooked, really. But it was as if something had changed inside Tally's head, something that had turned his face pretty to her.
want i-want-you ifs
you dont see me, now you do, but only if i want you to
fuzzy
Fuzzy Tally is no more.
travel nature life-is
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
done well-done wells
I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.
love heart hatred
The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.