Douglas Preston Quotes

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

Beauty of expression is so akin to the voice of the sea.

As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

There is no new wave, only the sea.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.

Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.

Writing is a communication.

Love is probably the strongest emotion that you can feel. It's very natural - and I wouldn't want to say easy - but natural and comfortable to write about, and there's so many different forms of it, millions of layers - you could write forever about it.

Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.

Take out another notebook, pick up another pen, and just write, just write, just write. In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write. Say yes, stay alive, be awake. Just write. Just write. Just write.

Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.

Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow.

the sea is a place of mystery. One by one, the mysteries of yesterday have been solved. But the solution seems always to bring with it another, perhaps a deeper mystery. I doubt that the last, final mysteries of the sea will ever be resolved. In fact, I cherish a very unscientific hope that they will not be.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.