Medical Writing Quotes

#1. This isn't a religious book though I mention God, not a medical advisory though I speak of pain. It's a circus, a mortuary, a grade school, a limousine ride. Will it be worth the paper it's printed on or the screen you hold in your hand? I just hope you remember it next week.

Chila Woychik

#2. If you submit an
article to a major refereed clinical journal and it is accepted
upon first submission without a single revision, let me
know and I will take you to dinner the next time you are in
Portland, Oregon.

Robert B. Taylor

#3. I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writing.

Khaled Hosseini

#4. is that the President? Then I will sleep awhile yet, for I see that these States sleep,

Walt Whitman

#5. One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing
being a data bank
and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.

Peter Greenaway

#6. Love creates acceptance, respect, passion and security.

Euginia Herlihy

#7. And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass her bits of his soul so that she could patch her own with it

Jodi Picoult

#8. It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

David Johansen

#9. It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, son as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind.

Walter Scott

#10. I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.

K.M. Soehnlein

#11. A wise man once said the fact that everyone lies is a universal truth, the only variable is about what.

Cameron Jace

#12. No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It's simply not worth it. This is not medical school.

Ann Patchett

#13. But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Walker Percy

#14. My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family's futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.

Tess Gerritsen

#15. Writing was in my mind from the time I was in high school, but more, the idea that I would be a doctor. I really wanted to be a medical doctor, and I had various schemes: one was to be a psychiatrist, another was tropical medicine.

Paul Theroux

#16. Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey

Marmaduke William Pickthall

#18. Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Pope Paul VI

#19. Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

W. D. Richter

#20. Good?" Cam said. "Right?"
I took another bite and nodded.
"Well, I have a whole ton of them at home." He stretched as he rolled up his napkin. "Just saying.

J. Lynn

#21. He read me extracts from a medical journal describing the progress of a staphylococcus aureus infection. And then he pleasured me with a potato.

Grant Morrison

#22. Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's".

Michel De Montaigne

#23. Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Mark Udall

#24. The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#25. Even the silences seemed infused with a secret knowledge. We held hands as we walked around the moon and it felt right and it felt good. I had never felt anything like that before.

Andersen Prunty