Michael Crichton
Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichtonwas an American best-selling author, physician, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at No. 1 in US television, film, and book sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 October 1942
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
There isn't any delusion. It is absolutely clear that this body energy is a genuine phenomenon of some kind.
To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.
Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.
Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.
The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.
Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.
Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.
Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.
Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.
You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school.
This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.