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If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

~Diana Gabaldon

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My husband gets up at around 5.30 A.M., so I'll tuck him in around 9.30 P.M. or 10 P.M., and then I'll go and lie down on the couch with a book and my two dachshunds.

~Diana Gabaldon

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My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Ambition Been Better Born Both Children Could Depression Good Grew Guaranteed Knew Lives Nobody One Thing Parents Pension Plan Salary Say Secure Than Thing Up Wanted Were Writer

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Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the library shelves.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I discovered that, given the indescribable nature of what I write, the only way to sell it is to give people free samples.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Discovered Free Give Given Indescribable Nature Only People Samples Sell Way Write I Write

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If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Some time later, long after 'Voyager' was published, I came across the Dunbonnet in another reference, and it gave an expanded version, and it told me the Dunbonnet's name - which was James Fraser.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I've walked on a lot of battlefields. Most of them are not haunted.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings and unzip their pants, turn around, and drop them to show me that they had 'Bonnie lassie' tattooed across their rumpuses!

~Diana Gabaldon

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People ask me why I write strong women, and I say, 'Well, I don't like stupid ones.' Who would want to read about weak and whiny women? Are they people who assume women are weak and whiny? If so, why do they think that?

~Diana Gabaldon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 11th, 1952

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