Bones (TV Series)

The Woman in the Car (2006)

Jaime Ray Newman: Stacy Goodyear

Quotes 

• Stacy Goodyear : I'm Stacie Goodyear and joining me on Wake Up, D.C. is Dr. Temperance Brennan. She is the author of the best-selling mystery novel "Bred in the Bone" and she's also - now tell me if I get this wrong - an anthropologist who works with the F.B.I. to solve crimes?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes, that's correct. I use the bones of people who have been murdered, or burned, or blown up, or eaten by animals or insects, or just decomposed.

  Stacy Goodyear : Well, that's exciting. Uh, Dr. Brennan, your book has sold over 300,000 copies. How do you juggle twin careers as a best-selling author and a crime-fighting scientist?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, I do one, then the other.

  Stacy Goodyear : And is the work enjoyable? I mean, the part involving rotten bodies?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Enjoyable? Well, satisfying, yes. Like cracking a code. But in general, when you're looking at someone who's been brutally murdered... it's complicated.

  Stacy Goodyear : 'Cause I just thought, you know, yuck!

  [she laughs, but Brennan doesn't] 

  Stacy Goodyear : Doesn't leave you much time for a personal life, does it?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : It's true I'm more focused on my career right now.

  Stacy Goodyear : Most of our viewers are parents at home with their pre-school-aged children. What will you tell your kids about the horrors that you see everyday?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : I'm not going to have any children.

  Stacy Goodyear : Really?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Yes, really.

  Stacy Goodyear : Do you have any advice for budding authors out there?

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Well, the first thing you should have is an idea and then... Well, first you need something to write with. They... they know that. Well, obviously you need a writing instrument and you need an idea. I'm just not sure which should come first.

  Stacy Goodyear : The book is "Bred in the Bone" by Dr. Temperance Brennan. Next up after the break: wicker, the new leather. But is it safe for your children?