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Every time I'd read about the stone circles, it would describe how they worked as an astronomical observance. For example, some of the circles are oriented so that at the winter solstice, the sun will strike a standing stone.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'

~Diana Gabaldon

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While you certainly will recognize 'Outlander' if you've been reading the books, there's also this wonderful sense of novelty and discovery about it because of all the little new touches and twists. I watch it in utter fascination waiting to see what will happen.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: About Also Because Been Books Certainly Discovery Fascination Happen Little New Novelty Reading Recognize See Sense Twists Utter Waiting Watch While Will Wonderful You

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If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events, but less so when you're writing an essentially straight historical fiction.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I have all the time and space in the world when I write a book.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Well, I can't remember not being able to read. I was told I could read by myself very well at the age of three.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

~Diana Gabaldon

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When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

~Diana Gabaldon

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People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 11th, 1952

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