Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes
Top 92 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paolo Bacigalupi
Paolo Bacigalupi Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
She'd been so busy worrying about soldier boys and villagers she'd forgotten the jungle had hunters of its own, and now she was going to die for it.
It is a precise thing, a scripted act as deliberate as Jo No Mai, each move choreographed, a worship of scarcity.
Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you'd seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
Despite everything, he failed to understand the capriciousness of warfare. In his arrogance he thought he could prepare. Such a fool...
Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank?
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
It was a view of the world that anticipated evil from people because people always delivered. And the worst part was that she couldn't really argue.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
If we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces.
Language is how we hack other people's brains. It's how we make them see things the way we want them to see them.
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
We waste all our money throwing dice, trying to get close to Luck, trying to get the big win ... To help us find something we can keep for ourselves.
Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
We knew it was all going to go to hell, and we just stood by and watched it happen anyway. There ought to be a prize for that kind of stupidity.
People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?
Hell, we're all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you're a goddamn legend.
Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.
As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you'd ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.
Their yellow eyes seemed to hold ancient knowledge, as if their memories of want and drought and survival were so much more than Maria's.
The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.
I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.
A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.