Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before. I look back at things I wrote then and I'm so embarrassed - the writing seems so blocky and choppy to me and I wouldn't have wanted success any sooner because the writing was even worse.

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I learned from my past.

I think there are many faces to everyone. I also have my bad sides. Also I think everyone is trying to improve their shortcomings to become more wholesome.

The older I get, the more my curiosity grows, and every book I write is a new exploration.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.