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Scott Westerfeld Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1963

Topics

Smart People Research Brain Reading

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Jerzy Kosinski

Father Health Sleep Remember Go Way

New York is where you go to catch a big fish.

Jessica Cutler

New York Fish You Go New Big

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

John Bonham

Tea Tired Dare Drink Sit Get

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

Andy Dunn

Culture Me Wish Create I Wish How

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

John Olver

Great Deep Ice Attention Powerful

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Jean Paul

Joy Sympathy Know Sorrow None Which

Basically, what I'm doing is what I want to do. I feel very lucky. And very satisfied.

John Ritter

Feel Doing Want Lucky Satisfied

I don't talk with people about how I am feeling - I just usually write a song about it.

Soccer Mommy

I Am People Song Feeling Talk Write

I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.

Toni Collette

Life Yourself Happy You Artist True

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.

Tony Bennett

Birthday Great Me Kitchen Party Rat

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Robert Ballard

Friend Best Ocean Best Friend Kid

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

Jay Parini

Spiritual Energy Story Reality Say