472 Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

We’re too busy being special.

Makes perfect sense. In a problematic way. But life is problematic, so novels must be too.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what’s right in front of you.

Okay... That’s still blind-making.

If a meteor falls in the forest and no one realizes it, does it end the war?

But books don’t happen by accident.

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

That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn’t mean YOU had to.

The thought of publishing – of the whole world reading Afterworlds – had always made Darcy feel naked and exposed, but loving had left her skinless.