Quotes by Scott Westerfeld

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?Morgan sighed again. The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out. She shrugged. I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?Lace looked at me sidelong. You were where?I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

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

I wouldnt 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.

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 youd never know just by dating.