Mary Roach I’ve been writing full-time since about 1984 – mostly magazine features and columns. – Mary Roach Columns Quotes Features Quotes Fulltime Quotes Magazine Quotes Writing Quotes 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. 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.
Jon Tester I really think that people’s right to happiness shouldn’t be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I’ve come to know a lot of people that – sexual orientation is such where they’re in love with people from the same sex, and I just don’t think it’s our role in the government to say, ‘No you can’t be married.’ – Jon Tester
Stanley Schmidt I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion. – Stanley Schmidt
Cuba GoodingJr I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them. – Cuba Gooding, Jr
Lindsay Shookus I’ve tried to become a more emotionally intelligent person through therapy and meditation, but I can’t control the fact that some of the things written about me aren’t true. – Lindsay Shookus
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