Top 56 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

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 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.

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.