Douglas Preston Quotes

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• The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.
• One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
• The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.
• My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value…
• Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves…
• Retribution is just outstanding.
• Hubris and science are incompatible.
• I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up…
• My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
• There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.
• There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
• I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the…
• I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or 5,…
• When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing…
• You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All…
• A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface…
• It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.
• He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped…
• Where are you from, Mr. Pendergast? Can't quite place the accent.” “New Orleans.” “What a coincidence! I went there for Mardi Gras once." “How nice…
• We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

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