All Douglas Preston Quotes
- The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid. Brutal
- One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. Easily
- 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. Committed
- 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… Basement
- 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… Age
- Retribution is just outstanding. Inspirational
- Hubris and science are incompatible. Funny
- 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… Behind
- My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing. Biking
- There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. Hate
- There is nothing inherently wrong about science. Funny
- 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… All
- 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,… Accountant
- 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… All
- 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… 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… Carried
- It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Bad
- 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… Been
- 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… Accent
- We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. All
- Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. Box