Age Quote by Sara Sheridan

As an historical novelist – there are few jobs more retrospective.

— Sara Sheridan

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

— Margaret MacMillan

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

— Charles J. Shields

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously…

— George Pelecanos

Historical science is being left in the dust.

— Jack Horner

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

— Michael Ondaatje

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 only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

— Hilary Mantel

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

— Paul Lauterbur

In high school and college, I started to read more and write science fiction myself. I was fully engaged in writing in the 1990s.

— Liu Cixin

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson