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When people fight for ideals, no price is too high, and no fight can be surrendered. They aren't fighting for money, or power, or control. Not really. They're fighting to destroy their enemies. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Start by loving, instead of needing. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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You think you are some fine predator? A swamp panther or coywolv?" He pretended to inspect her. "Where are your teeth and claws, girl?" He bared his teeth. "Where is your bite? -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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No one else could see all the bodies she'd left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was just her, looking at herself, and not liking what she saw. Knowing she could never escape her own judging gaze. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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She is an animal. Servile as a dog. And yet if he is careful to make no demands, to leave the air between them open, another version of the windup girl emerges. As precious and rare as a living bo tree. Her soul, emerging from within the strangling strands of her engineered DNA. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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There were stories in sweat. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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A final stand, then. One last battle. At least he could say that he had fought. When he met his brothers and sisters on the far side of death, he would tell them that he had not yielded. He might have betrayed everything that they had been bred for, but he had never yielded. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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How did you find truth when everyone was talking about sides? -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Crew up, Nailer!" Lucky Girl shouted. "You think I'm going to pull your ass up here like a damn swank? -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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For a second, Americans could still feel like big swinging dicks. Solidarity, baby. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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In the distance, a building explodes in flame. She has over a hundred men working this district, letting everyone feel the pain of real enforcement. Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. People have forgotten this. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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It is a precise thing, a scripted act as deliberate as Jo No Mai, each move choreographed, a worship of scarcity. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Men are loyal when you lead from the front. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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You can't know its mind, and you can't control it. This creature is nothing but war incarnate. If you traffic with it, you bring war into your house, and violence down upon yourself. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The future looks a bit bleak to me. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I don't need books about how things used to be. Everybody talks about how things used to be. I need a book about how I'm supposed to live now. Unless you got a book like that, I don't need the weight. She -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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They'd blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they'd still blame you. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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People only really live when they're about to die," he said. "Before then it's all a waste. You don't appreciate how good it is until you're really in the shit. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Pure data. You don't believe data - you test data." He grimaced. "If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely fucked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Blood is not destiny. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Your body is full of rage. Every sinew. It is easy to read. You speak volumes with a clenched fist. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Mahlia knew the many voices of war from her father's chant. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family. Everything else was just so much smoke and lies. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Doctor Mahfouz was always yammering on about how everyone had humanity in them. From Mahlia's experience, the doctor was sliding high, but now, as she looked at this sergeant named Ocho, she wondered if there was some bit of softness in this hard scarred boy that she might be able to work. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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If I was strategic, I would have figured out how to get out of this place. Would have seen everything falling apart and got out while there were still ships to sail. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Knowing all and having the necessary tools are two different things. This is hardly a hospital. We make do with what we have, and none of that is Mahlia's fault. Tani is the victim of many evils, but Mahlia is not the beginning of that chain, nor the end. I am responsible, if anyone is. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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It's human nature to tear one another apart. Be glad you come from such a successful line of killers. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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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
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Lock it away," the half-man whispered. "You feel, after. Not now. Now you are a soldier. Now you do your duty for your pack. If you break, your Mouse will die, and you with him. Feel, after. Not now. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Knowledge is always two-edged. For every benefit, there is hazard. For every good, evil. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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We rest in the hands of a fickle god. He plays on our behalf only for entertainment, and he will close his eyes and sleep if we fail to engage his intellect. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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The theater of operation built itself in Tool's mind. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I never turned children to war," Tool said.
"Only because you fought on the side of wealth, -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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Maybe because we're photosynthesizing we'll do more work outside. So our laptops will have to get rid of these damn glossy screens that have become so popular. And then we'll sit around outside, sucking up sun, getting fat and green, and surfing the net. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Everyone in China knows The Topics. The television stations and newspapers run the same state-generated stories all across the country, and the Chinese form their opinions based on these somewhat controlled sources. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Some people had to bleed so other people could drink. Simple as that. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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A desert's a stupid place to put a river. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Despite everything, he failed to understand the capriciousness of warfare. In his arrogance he thought he could prepare. Such a fool... -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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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
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The idea made Mahlia's chest tighten. It was her own fantasy, the secret one she sometimes curled up to when she went to bed, knowing that it was stupid, but still wanting it, wanting it to somehow all make sense. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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You cannot bargain with me. My heart is the clock. Find medicine before it ticks dry, and buy your friend's life. Fail and his corpse is all you will find here. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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which general has decided to betray Pracha. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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There's a theory that 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. If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it. Not the other way around. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Death is not defeat, Tool told himself. We all die. Every one of us. Rip and Blade and Fear and all the rest. We all die. So what if you are the last? You were designed to be destroyed. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Everything's bad, until you find something worse. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Tool glanced over his shoulder, looking to see if the girl might have changed her mind, but she was gone. Swallowed up by the land. The Drowned Cities ate its children. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Mahlia just waited. She was good at that. When you were a castoff, it didn't do any good trying to talk to people, but sometimes, if you just kind of waited them out, people would get uncomfortable and feel like they had to do something. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree to sleep. And in the morning, it woke with her and clung to her back, riding on her shoulders as she climbed down, hungry and exhausted from nightmares. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.' -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Belief." He snorted. "I could kiss a thousand crosses. Fucking belief. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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I like fast plots with things that explode. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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When an animal spoke, you were supposed to pay attention. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
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Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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We're so few in comparison to the past, where did all the souls go? -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Suicide is not something I owe you or yours. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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You couldn't live close to war and not have it grab you eventually. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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It's the first rule of bureaucracy: any message worth sending is worth sending in triplicate. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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You get worked up about what's right and wrong, but that shit's only in your head. Rules are what the big dogs say they are. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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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I'm definitely writing my fears. It's almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, 'I'm worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.' -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Watch your mouth," Mahlia said, "or I'll stitch your guts shut. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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You're afraid to gamble even when you're already dead -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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She was too smart for his own good. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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Children playing at war. Children who don't deserve to die, but are too foolish to live. -- Paolo Bacigalupi