Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1972

Topics

ReachYouWantNeedOutDecide

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Jodie Foster

NormalAspireAwaySomethingGet

When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to the world, but I could be famous to people on the Internet.' And I set a goal. I said, 'I'm going to win an award,' because I had never won an award in my entire life.

Mena Grabowski Trott

LifeI AmPeopleWinWorldAward

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

Mattie Stepanek

WantRememberedPoetWhoPeacemaker

I feel that, particularly because of language, we are handicapped in getting a large world audience. But Hindi cinema has the same ingredients that appeal to the whole world.

Amitabh Bachchan

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For the show, it's really important that we remember that Lucifer is the Devil. It's important for Lucifer sometimes to remember that he's the Devil: to keep the notion that he is a wild animal that is seemingly being tamed but, at any moment, could snap.

Tom Ellis

MomentAnimalDevilRememberWild

The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

Mary Gaitskill

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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Miguel de Cervantes

MotherExperienceBelieveTrueMany

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

Miuccia Prada

MenStrongYouSayStrong MenWeak

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Dennis Farina

WordsRememberTryingKnowJust

I'd never had any problem finding inspiration; Ireland was always just there, you know? All this richness of culture was there to tap into.

Brendan Gleeson

CultureProblemFindingYouKnow

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Aristotle

BestGovernmentEqualityDemocracy

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Anne Rice

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