Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

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SEAN DUFFY You just read. Newspapers and magazines and stuff. I was running out of reading material.
JUSTIN SPEIER Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Micha...
GARDNER DOZOIS Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
EDNA FERBER We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks i...
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JONATHAN KELLERMAN Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Time...
NEIL STRAUSS I have read books that are so cliched and lazy, my eyes have bled. But I also have read books market...
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PAUL THEROUX People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th...
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JOHN HURT Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
BUZZ ALDRIN Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
CARL REINER There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in A...
KEN HAM I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids arou...
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DWEEZIL ZAPPA I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The t...
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BILL BUDGE Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because...
ALICE DREGER Newspapers have an agenda that does not match people's opinions in many cases, ... They are out of s...
EDWARD ATORINO I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to...
ANDREA BARRETT The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when...
IRVINE WELSH Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail...
DON DELILLO I hope that I dress for my age. Because there's no need to be dowdy, is there? But I don't g...
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TAMRON HALL Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothin...
MICHIO KAKU Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a...
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MICHAEL POLLAN Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
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MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
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Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

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Newspapers and magazines are vanishing. But science writers are not. In fact, they are becoming so adept and varied that I hardly have time to read 'Gawker' anymore.

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