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I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Books Comic Comic Books Disney Graphic Media Novel Understand Used Very Visual Walt Walt Disney Well Write Written

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I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Books Harry Harry Potter Like Line Outline Plan Potter Straight Straight Line Time Work Write Ahead

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I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Final Get Glued Happen Part Plot Really Scene See Then Things Things Happen Together Where Write I Can I Write

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How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Carry Different How Pictures Story Text Than You

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There's always a temptation, I think, among some historical writers to shade things toward the modern point of view. You know, they won't show someone doing something that would have been perfectly normal for the time but that is considered reprehensible today.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Always Among Been Considered Doing Historical Know Modern Normal Perfectly Point Point Of View Reprehensible Shade Show Some Someone Something Temptation Things Think Time Today Toward View Would Writers You I Think

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I read Tolkien when I was 11. I read 'The Hobbit' and the trilogy on a road trip with my family. I identified with the nonhumans in those books, and it never occurred to me why that was.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Books Family Hobbit Identified Me Never Occurred Read Road Those Tolkien Trilogy Trip Why

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You see one scene shot 25 times in one day, which is totally fascinating, but while you're watching it, you're remembering, 'This is what I was thinking when I was writing that part of the book,' and so it brings it all back very gradually as you're working.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Back Book Brings Day Fascinating Gradually One Day Part Remembering Scene See Shot Thinking Times Totally Very Watching Which While Working Writing You

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Partly because of the way I write - I don't work with an outline or in a straight line. I work where I can see things happening, and so I get lots and lots of little bits to start with, and I'm doing the research at the same time.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Because Bits Doing Get Happening Line Little Lots Lots And Lots Outline Partly Research Same Same Time See Start Straight Straight Line Things Time Way Where Work Write I Can I Write

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I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Any Break Couple Day Dinner Family Go Grew Hours House Interruption Just Kind Month Old Own Sit Still Take Times Two Up Watch Without Work Dvd

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At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander The Musical.'

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Gentleman Had Mind Musical Nice Point Some Years Years Ago

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 11th, 1952

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