Books Quote by Douglas Preston Download Open image ““I have my books. I don't live in the actual world.”” — Douglas Preston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.” — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“I can not imagine a world without books. My world will not be complete with the love for books.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“ 'You're there, but the books draw you in to whole other worlds. I mean, I know you study more serious things than the… — Caethes Faron Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting… — douglas preston Copy Share Image
“A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding?” he asked. “Sipping syrup?” “It’s a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.” “A… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
