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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.

~Mary Roach

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In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

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There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

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If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

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My books are not really books; they're endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.

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When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

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I spend a lot of my time on the phone, pestering people. 'What's new in your lab? Can I come visit your lab? When can I come visit your lab?' I'm basically a professional pesterer.

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I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.

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I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'

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Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 20th, 1959

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