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

~Douglas Preston

Topics: Biking Camping Cooking Hiking Hobbies Horseback Mountain Packing Riding Skiing

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Hubris and science are incompatible.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: Hubris Incompatible Science

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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.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: About Basement Did Dishes Ever First First Job Hard Hard Work Home Hour Job Later Learned Much Nursing Nursing Home Value Washing Work

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There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: About Inherently Nothing Science Wrong

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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.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: Back Behind Better Big Might Need Room Small Smaller Sneak Someone Up Where Write

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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.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: Any Become Book Considered Desire Endeavors Enormous Fired Greatest Influenced Literature Me More Novel Novels Other Participate Peace Power Say Than Then Up War Would Writer

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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.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: About Accountant Clerk Get Guy Hours Keep Kind Morning Mornings Much Pretty Same Saturday Sometimes Sunday Until Whatever Work

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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.

~Douglas Preston

Topics: All The Facts Book Facts Fiction God Hard Laid Make Much Nonfiction Out Sea Stuff Thinking Up Were Where Wish Writing I Wish

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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

Topics: Hate Journalists Lazy Many Out Research Say Shows Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 20th, 1956

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