Continuing on the theme of scientists and novelists:
McCarthy has long enjoyed a close interaction with scientists, keeping an office at the Santa Fe Institute, an independent research centre that also houses a host of scientists, founded by the Nobel prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann. (George Johnson’s biography of Gell-Mann, Strange Beauty, reveals that McCarthy performed a line-edit on the entire manuscript of his The Quark and the Jaguar, “but Gell-Mann was too rushed and disorganised to take advantage of the suggestions”).
Gell-Mann disorganized… that makes me feel better about my own work habits. On the other hand, Gell-Mann is a genius.
The Finch and Pea 