30 Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes for You to Enjoy

Paolo Bacigalupi

American Writer

Born: Aug 6, 1972

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Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense. Paolo Bacigalupi

Example Embedded Inside More Fires Tourism Economies For Example Ecosystems Affected Forest Snow Intense Dependent Low Skiers Less Companies

I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones. Paolo Bacigalupi

Work Alone Failure Together Political Problems Our Way Complex Solve Smallest Failing Interested Work Together Even Here

All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought. Paolo Bacigalupi

You Man Science People Writing Hidden Definitions Kind Must Write Writer Put Come Terms Science Fiction Inequity Rocket Ships Where Want Fiction Dystopian Meanings Fought

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like. Paolo Bacigalupi

World Say Data Could Write Points Like Look Ask

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

You Natural People Somewhere Else Stay Area Somewhere Else Disaster Know Still Go Human Impulse Just Actually Right

The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that. Paolo Bacigalupi

Me You Balance People Giving Follow Follow-Up Schedule Like Ideas Sort Always How Gotten Up Proceed Produce Confusing Really Next Should Your Publishers Things Desires

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw. Paolo Bacigalupi

By nature I'm sort of an introvert. Paolo Bacigalupi

Nature Introvert Sort

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA. Paolo Bacigalupi

When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill. Paolo Bacigalupi

Love Science Space Reading Young Wild Kids Futures About Adult Weird Adventurous Concept Talk Tied Traditional Lot Fits Impression Essentially Young Adult Fiction Fictional Places Dystopia Them Bill Necessarily

I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool. Paolo Bacigalupi

Work Future Science Trend Looking Think Tool About Write Put Clear Outward Particular Like Look Most Science Fiction Label Dominant Very Goes Fiction Anything Fictional Might Then Moment Now Present

Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes. Paolo Bacigalupi

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society. Paolo Bacigalupi

Power Reading Society Kid Inside Somehow Rise Had Liked Always Going Influence Where Wanted Stories Story Fantasy

The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing. Paolo Bacigalupi

Writing Books Liked Conclusion Still Came Sell Process Even

I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing. Paolo Bacigalupi

Crazy Writing Unhappy Less

As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low. Paolo Bacigalupi

Science Girl Lose Everyone Our Hoping Shade Had Science Fiction None Becoming Were Hearing Sell Up Very Shirts Hit Expectations Expected Just As Far As Fiction Low Far Us Grown Grown-Up Night

I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice. Paolo Bacigalupi

Try Care Ourselves Out Only Reach Know Withdraw Another Person Decide Choice Choose Help Fascinated Why

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories. Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story. Paolo Bacigalupi

Me Book Somebody Down Think Enough Tell Someone Give Give Me Arguing Ideal Conception Reader Ultimately Lot Matured Sitting Going Quite Intention Quite A Lot Automatically Story Slack

Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids. Paolo Bacigalupi

Lie Writing Hide Wish Teens Our Kids Scary Something Could Adult Blankets Put Heads Read Want Story

The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right. Paolo Bacigalupi

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