Paolo Bacigalupi 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 Amazing Quotes Book Quotes Happy Quotes Instinct Quotes Pleasing Quotes Sort Quotes Telling Quotes Trick Quotes When I was writing ‘The Windup Girl’ and ‘Ship Breaker,’ I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that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. 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.
Robert Caro Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro
J B Morton One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife’s ear. – J B Morton
Conan O'Brien The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, ‘Why didn’t you do that when you were on television?’ – Conan O’Brien
Alvar AaltoNature Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature. – Alvar Aalto
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