Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Novelists are evil psychopomps, basically. We treat a few characters as real, but the rest of them are cannon fodder.

Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference?

About Author

Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.

Rex lost his specs.

The world always had more details than you could remember, more than you could even see, and a thousand times more than you could ever write down. You were always deleting and forgetting far more than...

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doingnothing.

Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged?Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed differen...

All that glitters is not hovery.

That was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

And barking famous, these friends are

And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your f...

And hidden within the agony the strange clarity came again, as if the world had ordered itself into something that made perfect sense.

Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years.

But books don't happen by accident.

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stroll together. The warden came closer, confusion all over his middle-pretty face. Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end...

¿Debía contarle a aquel nuevo imperfecto que, esa misma tarde,iban a abrirle el cuerpo, a limarle los huesos para darles la forma adecuada, a estiraro rellenar algunos, a quitarle el cartílago nasal y...

You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

If you threaten Deryn Sharp again, Volger – in any way at all – I’m done with you.

Wisdom tells me i'm nothing, love tells me I'm everything.