Paolo Bacigalupi : (7)

" 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

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

" 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

" When I was writing ‘The Windup Girl’ and ‘Ship Breaker,’ I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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

" 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

" 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

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