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