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I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

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Paolo Bacigalupi

I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.

Writing, Procrastination, Quirky, Work, Habits
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Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined.

Defined, Explode, Hands, Ideas, Long, Work

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Ghost, Left, Problem, Riding, Shoulders, Surviving

We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Fully, Nature, Tinkering, World

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

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Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

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