Backgrounds Quote by Tess Gerritsen

Stories are medicine.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on…

— Michael Mann

The medical genre is beloved, and there are so many great stories to be told - and that's why it's so popular.

— Matt Czuchry

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that…

— Ann Patchett

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side,…

— Richard Price

Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if…

— Sarah Sutton

I think that, for physicians who want to become writers, they have the material, the smarts, they have the logic, they know the stories;…

— Tess Gerritsen

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for…

— Junot Diaz

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

I like stories with lots of psychology.

— Alfred Hitchcock

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese