Quotes by Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

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 of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.

Ocean

Sea

Writing

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 of your secrets.

Eye

Forgotten

Secret

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Hubris

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 back.

Needs

Small Rooms

Writing

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 enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

Book

Desire

War

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, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

Guy

Morning

Sunday

It’s a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Bad Habits

Break

Habit

Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time.

Doctors

Thinking

Writing

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 of hard work there as I ever did later.

Hard Work

Home

Jobs

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

Cooking

Hiking

Kayaking

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Bad Habits

Book

Boxes

Break

Brutal

Character

Cooking

Crazy

Degrees

Desire

Differences

Doctors

Eye

Forgotten

Gates Of Hell

Guy

Habit

Hard Work

Hate

Heart

Hell

Hiking

Home

Hubris

Jobs

Kayaking

Lazy

Loss

Meditation

Men

Mind

Monsters

Morning

Moving

Needs

New Orleans

Nice

Ocean

Outside The Box

Outstanding

Real

Research

Retirement

Retribution

Rooms

Satan

Sea

Secret

Small Rooms

Stars

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Quotes by Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston

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 of your secrets.

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 behind my back.

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 enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.

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, and sometimes I work on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Pretty much I keep the same hours as an accountant or clerk or whatever.

It’s a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

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 of hard work there as I ever did later.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

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