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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are…

— Bill Bryson

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern…

— Kenichi Fukui

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find.…

— Richard J. Roberts

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You…

— Frederik Pohl

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

— Eric Betzig

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you're going to write, you're going to have to force yourself to really study the world.

— Jason Isbell

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our…

— Richard Ernst

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that…

— Wallace Carothers

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

— Walter Jon Williams

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

— Tracy Kidder

What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space…

— Doris Lessing