Writing Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

Paper

Physicians

Writing

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

Cancer

Character

Writing

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

Firsts

Thinking

Writing

Siddhartha Mukherjee

There’s a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the ‘hidden imposthume’, and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it’s called ‘the big C’.

Cancer

Ideas

Writing

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Discovery

Quality

Writing

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Believe

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Chaos

Character

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Connections

Culture

Daughter

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Heart

Hysteria

Ideas

India

Interesting

Leader

Levels

Media

Medicine

Might

Moving

Organized

Pain

Paper

Physicians

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Realising

Reorganization

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Repeats

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Simple

Song

Summer

Technology

Thinking

Today

Twenties

Two

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Way

World

Writing

Years

Writing Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

There’s a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the ‘hidden imposthume’, and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it’s called ‘the big C’.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

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