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
believe stories enough-time
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
talking brain dying
Dying is one of those things that can’t be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.
mean too-late late
Sooner or later usually means too late
enemy my-best-friend sometimes
I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy
ideas noses
Where did you get that idea for a nose? - Frizz Mizuno
fire world
When she awoke, the world was on fire.
college class training
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
fun ugly feels
Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.
monday night long
It's just been a long week, that's all." "It's monday night, Jess." "My point exactly.
fall kids thinking
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black Death, the fourteenth-century plague that killed 100-million people... Sadly, though, most experts think this is nonsense... How can I be so sure about this rhyme when all the experts disagree? Because I ate the kid who made it up.
lines firsts technique
I like my first lines short and declarative. No complicated sentences. Of course, that's not really a Scott thing. It's pretty classic grab-the-reader technique.
two killers gorgeous
Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous
brain damage despised
Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?
looks exit problem
That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.