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When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I was writing 'Outlander' for practise and didn't want anyone to know I was doing it. So I couldn't very well announce to my husband that I was quitting my job and abandoning him with three small children to visit Scotland to do research for a novel that I hadn't told him I was writing.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I began writing 'Outlander' in 1988, so the Internet as we now know it didn't exist.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe become Claire right before my eyes. It was an astonishing transformation.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I've never been willing to commit to more than one at a time, because I just don't know - I don't plan the books out ahead of time. So I have no idea how much ground we'll cover.

~Diana Gabaldon

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All I had when I began writing the first book was rather vague images conjured up by the notion of a man in a kilt, so essentially I began with Jamie, although I had no idea what his name was at the time.

~Diana Gabaldon

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The media is always looking for a story of one kind or another.

~Diana Gabaldon

Topics: Always Another Kind Looking Media Story

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You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.

~Diana Gabaldon

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I read some books, and I thought, 'This is better than sliced bread!' and a month later, I couldn't remember thinking about it. And I've read others that were kind of a slog, and I've put them down and come back six months later thinking, 'Wow, this is great.' So, you know, things change all the time.

~Diana Gabaldon

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If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person - no two people - read the same book.

~Diana Gabaldon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 11th, 1952

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