The World Motivation
Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.
“Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.”
— Mary Roach · Book
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“Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.”
“I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.”
“I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.”
“A fine book, in the perfect setting, when there's all the time in the world to read it: Life holds greater joys, but none come to mind just now.”
“Day by day, I'm kind of a bore.”
“I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.”
“My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'”
“It was very risky and quite courageous to write a book about winning when I was still to win my first title. But for me, the one who possesses a winning mentality isn't necessarily the one who wins in the end but the one who wants to win the most.”
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.”
“Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.”
“I read. I order books from the States. I literally go into bookstores, close my eyes, and take things off the shelf. If I don't like the book after a bit, I don't finish it. But I like to be surprised.”