Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Scott Westerfeld:

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.
~Scott Westerfeld


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#ae33654e

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
~Scott Westerfeld


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#6da1ebab

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
~Scott Westerfeld


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#b4c28005

I have no problem with commenters stating strong opinions, except for my usual annoyance with people who don't agree with me.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#517e00f3

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#a92fffa4

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#b1ea27ce

I think any List of Best X creates arguments and people saying 'You listed that rubbish?' That's what lists like this are for.
~Scott Westerfeld


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#fbfa5f32

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college. However, my adult books are all science fiction, which has some similarities to YA.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#f5b3d0b0

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#01e012dc

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.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#ee1f4287

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#309bb246

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#64076058

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#fea6bde7

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.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#6e7ab6cb

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.
~Scott Westerfeld


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/scott-westerfeld-quotes/#a5a47c23

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