Literary Birthday – 4 May – Robin Cook

Robin Cook Quotes

1. I believe my books are actually teaching people.
2. I get up and sit myself down even if I want to do something different. You have to push yourself. You have to find that kind of discipline. I figured it out a long time ago. I have to have a separate place in my house to write. Writing is not easy. It takes a lot of effort.
3. I joke that if my books stop selling, I can always fall back on brain surgery.
4. If I had to do it over again, I would still study medicine. I think of myself more as a doctor who writes, rather than a writer who happens to be a doctor.
5. Most of the best writers that I know have experience in some other career first. I say to people who want to be writers get some experience in something, be it as a physician or a teacher or something.

Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist. He is best known for his medical thrillers. To date, Cook has fictionalized issues such as organ donation, fertility treatment, genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization, research funding, managed care, medical malpractice, medical tourism, drug research, and organ transplantation. His first bestseller was Coma which was made into a successful feature film. To date Cook has written a total of 42 worldwide bestsellers, which have sold nearly 400 million copies. There have been almost a dozen theatrical movies, television movies, and mini-series made from his work. In 2014 he was also the recipient of the first annual Robert B. Parker mystery writer’s award. His latest book is Spasm.

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by Amanda Patterson

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