About Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

— Karl Iagnemma

Well, of course I would choose to be the top scientist in my field.

— Jeff Goldblum

Any kind of person can be a scientist.

— Maria Klawe

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

— James Gleick

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

— Hope Jahren

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I was going to be a scientist.

— Ben Okri

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

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

— Sinclair Lewis

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

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

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of…

— Alan Alda