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Mary Roach

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.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

I’ve been writing full-time since about 1984 – mostly magazine features and columns.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

I’m always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read – I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

Dead people never seem to address the obvious – the things you’d think they’d be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: ‘Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What’s it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I’m on the toilet? Would you cut that out?’

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, ‘I’d like to interview you,’ who am I to say no, when I spend all my days going, ‘Hello, you don’t know me. I’d like to ask you some questions. Do you have a little time?’

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

Though it’s harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it is justifiable nonetheless. Cosmetic surgery exists, for better or for worse, and it’s important, for the sake of those who undergo it, that the surgeons who do it are able to do it well.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it’s a good thing. But I don’t really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

– Mary Roach

Mary Roach

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

– Mary Roach

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