“I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room...” — Nathaniel Philbrick Quote

I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.

More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

I was in a band called the SteelDrivers, and we just played hard in vans, hopping on airplanes, not knowing where you're at.

I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.