Break Quote by Karl Iagnemma

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

— Sinclair Lewis

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I really don't think of myself as a science writer.

— James Gleick

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I spend a lot of time talking to other scientists and writing to other scientists.

— Hope Jahren

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a…

— John Noble

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the…

— Louise Erdrich

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.

— Neil Gaiman

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Speaking for myself, I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science…

— Alastair Reynolds