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I work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I don't plot the books out ahead of time, I don't plan them. I don't begin at the beginning and end at the end. I don't work with an outline and I don't work in a straight line.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually.

~Diana Gabaldon

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If you call it a romance, it will never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other respectable literary venue. And that's okay. I can live with that.

~Diana Gabaldon

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When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller list, they very honorably redesigned the covers and started calling them fiction.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I have never seen a script that hasn't gone through at least eight different iterations before they even begin filming, and frequently what is filmed is not what's in the script, because things change on the ground. An actor can't say a particular line. An actor will have a brainstorm and ad lib something utterly brilliant.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I'm not one of these writers who says, 'Oh yes, the next book is due out in one year and three days.' I just say you're gonna get it when it's done. It's gonna be good, but you're not going to get it until it is good.

~Diana Gabaldon

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It takes me about three years to write a book. They're very complex, and they take a lot of research, but also because the more popular your books get, the more popular you get, and people want to haul you off and look at you.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.

~Diana Gabaldon

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My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes', was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 11th, 1952

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