Douglas Preston
Douglas Preston
Douglas Jerome Prestonis an American author of techno-thriller and horror novels. He has written numerous novels, and although he is most well known for his collaborations with Lincoln Child, he has also written six solo novels, primarily including the Wyman Ford series. He also has authored a number of non-fiction books on history, science, exploration, and true crime...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
There is nothing inherently wrong about science.
hate lazy research
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.
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My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.
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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.
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We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
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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.
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One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
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Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
book writing thinking
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 a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
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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 your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.
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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.