Mary Roach Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to inspire with this book.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Inspire, Delight

  Mary Roach (2014). “Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

• All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Research, Obsession

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.299, Canongate Books

• Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

  Mary Roach

  Book, People, Disrespectful

  Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Databases, Medical

• The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Bars, Stuff

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

• 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.

  Mary Roach

  Fun, Book, Kids

• You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Spook and Stiff author Mary Roach". Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. August 27, 2010.

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