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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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
It is a precise thing, a scripted act as deliberate as Jo No Mai, each move choreographed, a worship of scarcity.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
There were stories in sweat.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I like fast plots with things that explode.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
which general has decided to betray Pracha.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Blood is not destiny.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Despite everything, he failed to understand the capriciousness of warfare. In his arrogance he thought he could prepare. Such a fool...
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
For a second, Americans could still feel like big swinging dicks. Solidarity, baby.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank?
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The theater of operation built itself in Tool's mind.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Everything's bad, until you find something worse.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
She was too smart for his own good.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
A desert's a stupid place to put a river.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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?
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
They'd blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they'd still blame you.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
When an animal spoke, you were supposed to pay attention.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I never turned children to war," Tool said."Only because you fought on the side of wealth, — Paolo Bacigalupi
Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Hell, we're all bullet bait sooner or later. Doubt it makes much difference. You make it to sixteen, you're a goddamn legend.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
It's the first rule of bureaucracy: any message worth sending is worth sending in triplicate.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
You couldn't live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The future looks a bit bleak to me.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
We're so few in comparison to the past, where did all the souls go?
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Watch your mouth," Mahlia said, "or I'll stitch your guts shut.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Start by loving, instead of needing.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you'd ever left behind riding on your shoulders.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
You're afraid to gamble even when you're already dead
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Some people had to bleed so other people could drink. Simple as that.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Children playing at war. Children who don't deserve to die, but are too foolish to live.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Belief." He snorted. "I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Men are loyal when you lead from the front.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
How did you find truth when everyone was talking about sides?
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Your body is full of rage. Every sinew. It is easy to read. You speak volumes with a clenched fist.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
Mahlia knew the many voices of war from her father's chant.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
