418 Quotes by Mary Roach
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
- Tags
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.
- Share
- Author Mary Roach
-
Quote
Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.
- Share