Paolo Bacigalupi Quotes

I focus a little more on pacing when I write books in the young adult category, and of course there's the great American fear of anything sexual, so that's somewhat backed off in YA.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FearGreatFocusAmericanYoung

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

John C. Maxwell

ValuePeopleSayOthersGiveMust

I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.

John Niven

GreatPeopleDinnerNightForward

I don't want to be unapproachable.

Angie Harmon

Want

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Robert Cray

ShyPrettyOutgoingToo

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn't care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.

Ron White

LoveMoneyPeopleCareLaughLiving

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

Rutger Hauer

HeartMyselfFightI AmMeViolence

So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.

Martin O'Malley

ParentsForwardEnoughLookCreate

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

Craig Brown

TimePeopleWavesThinkSameGoing

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

Anne Hathaway

DeathMeDietPlanLookKind

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

Arthur Quiller-Couch

YouWillMoreWriteClearlySurely

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Pliny the Elder

FearGriefLimitsKnowHappenMay

Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.

Philip Emeagwali

SchoolFinancialYearsOutEight

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