Scott Westerfeld

“When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.”

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

“Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.”

“I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.”

“It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”