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Goodreads asked Carl Zimmer:

How do you get inspired to write?

Carl Zimmer I get inspiration by finding good stories. A good story might reveal something surprising about how life works, or might involve a strange chain of events that I could never have made up myself. The excitement I feel thinking about such a story propels me through the writing, because I want to share it. If I don't feel that excitement about something, that's a good clue I shouldn't write about it, because I'll come to despise the process.

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Jonah asked Carl Zimmer:

I just read Microcosm and I particularly wondered, when you said salmonella is really e. coli, and that different e. coli strains have very different genomes- what defines e. coli as e. coli?

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Amy Lou asked Carl Zimmer:

Would you like to do a sequel to Parasite Rex? BTW I loved that book so much!

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