Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Palmer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Michael Palmer.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adopted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.

American - Writer | October 9, 1942 - October 30, 2013

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You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that.

Michael Palmer

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.

Michael Palmer

I just want people to get lost in the story and at the end kind of sag and say, 'That was fun.' It's hardly my desire for them to sit and think, 'What a great literary image.'

Michael Palmer

It seemed to me that I was put on earth to take care of people. That is what I should be doing, and I never got tired of it.

Michael Palmer

In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

Michael Palmer

You must have me confused with myself

Michael Palmer

Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside. -Gabe Singleton remembering his counselor's first advice-

Michael Palmer

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Michael Palmer

Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

Michael Palmer

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Palmer

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