Top 56 Quotes by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.

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.

Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

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.

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.

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

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

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