Scott Westerfeld People Quotations

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.

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

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

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.

History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.